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   James Kuyper  writes:   
      
   > On 2026-01-05 03:17, Andrey Tarasevich wrote:   
   >   
   >> On Sun 1/4/2026 11:19 PM, Kenny McCormack wrote:   
   >>   
   >>> The question is:  How can you reliably printf() a time_t value?   
   >>> What conversion spec should you use?   
   >>   
   >> You can't.  As far as the language is concerned, `time_t` is intended   
   >> to be an opaque type.  It has to be a real type, ...   
   >   
   > In C99, it was only required to be an arithmetic type.  I pointed out   
   > that this would permit it to be, for example, double _Imaginary. [...]   
      
   It's hard to imagine how time_t being an imaginary type could   
   provide the semantics described in the C standard for time_t.   
      
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