Re: [MacPerl] time, date, and timezone

[Chris Nandor <pudge@pobox.com>]

At 00.55 -0400 1998.08.27, Vicki Brown wrote:
>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?

Well, it means a lot to anyone who would write MacPerl code to get at it,
especially XS code.  And if someone wrote the XS code but did not pull out
the data for you, then you'll have to use unpack() yourself to get at it.

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