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From: Maciej Sobczak <see.my.homepage@gmail.com>
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Subject: Re: Getting current date and time
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On 24 Lip, 11:41, Georg Bauhaus <rm.tsoh+bauh...@maps.futureapps.de>
wrote:

> If recomputing the seconds doesn't seem adequate,
> and you want Unix epoch seconds, why not call the
> system function that provides Unix epoch seconds?

This can break portability (not that I'm actually very much interested
in preserving it).

It looks like this is the most adequate approach here.

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Maciej Sobczak
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