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Diffstat (limited to 'newlib/libc')
| -rw-r--r-- | newlib/libc/time/gmtime.c | 10 |
1 files changed, 5 insertions, 5 deletions
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 |