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Re: [MacPerl] time, date, and timezone

At 20:12 -0700 98/08/26, John W Baxter wrote:
>At 13:22 -0700 8/26/98, Stephan Somogyi wrote:
>>
>>A quick hunt through OSUtils.h shows that the MachineLocation struct
>>filled in by ReadLocation() contains a long named gmtDelta.
>
>Which if memory serves isn't a simple long as it is actually used, but
>indeed the delta to GMT is in there at the low end (high byte(s) has/have
>other uses).

OK... but what does this mean for those of us who use MacPerl?

longs and structs and .h files are C language constructs; I try diligently
not to write in C by preference under Unix; I _never_ write in C on the Mac
:-)

- Vicki

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