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| -rw-r--r-- | newlib/ChangeLog | 5 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | newlib/libc/time/gmtime.c | 10 |
2 files changed, 10 insertions, 5 deletions
diff --git a/newlib/ChangeLog b/newlib/ChangeLog index 09b648e53..5ddb8f08f 100644 --- a/newlib/ChangeLog +++ b/newlib/ChangeLog @@ -1,3 +1,8 @@ +2006-08-17 Brian Ford <Brian.Ford@FlightSafety.com> + + * libc/time/gmtime.c: Correct man page; clock is not a + local time and no conversion occurs. + 2006-08-16 Joel Schopp <jschopp@austin.ibm.com> * configure.host (newlib_cflags) [spu]: Add special compiler diff --git a/newlib/libc/time/gmtime.c b/newlib/libc/time/gmtime.c index d8e687559..40116c285 100644 --- a/newlib/libc/time/gmtime.c +++ b/newlib/libc/time/gmtime.c @@ -29,11 +29,11 @@ TRAD_SYNOPSIS struct tm *<[res]>; DESCRIPTION -<<gmtime>> assumes the time at <[clock]> represents a local time. -<<gmtime>> converts it to UTC (Universal Coordinated Time, also known in some -countries as GMT, Greenwich Mean time), then converts the -representation from the arithmetic representation to -the traditional representation defined by <<struct tm>>. +<<gmtime>> takes the time at <[clock]> representing the number +of elapsed seconds since 00:00:00 on January 1, 1970, Universal +Coordinated Time (UTC, also known in some countries as GMT, +Greenwich Mean time) and converts it to a <<struct tm>> +representation. <<gmtime>> constructs the traditional time representation in static storage; each call to <<gmtime>> or <<localtime>> will overwrite the |