On Tue, Apr 12, 2011 at 10:26:40PM +0200, Joerg Sonnenberger wrote: > On Tue, Apr 12, 2011 at 11:22:17PM +0300, Jukka Ruohonen wrote: > > And to use mktime(3), you must know the "tm" structure. > > No, you don't have to. That's the point Klaus is trying to make. > You need to know that certain fields exist, maybe also which type they > have. But you don't need to know the specific offsets or the order or > that no *other* fields are present.
You can play with my words, but you must know or "know" the structure. - Jukka.