From: richard@cogsci.ed.ac.uk   
      
   In article <10jfol6$2u6r8$1@news.xmission.com>,   
   Kenny McCormack  wrote:   
   >The question is: How can you reliably printf() a time_t value?   
      
   Do you want to print it in a human-understandable format?  Or a   
   non-binary format?  Or just in a way that's re-readable?   
      
   For a human-understandable format, the compiler needs to know about   
   the type.  Obviously this could be done for time_t, but for the   
   general case there would have to be a way for libraries to provide a   
   function that converts it to a string.   
      
   To handle the non-understandable formats, there could be format   
   specifiers to print binary and hex strings whose size is given by the   
   precision, like %.*s but not treating NUL as a terminator.   
      
   -- Richard   
      
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