Xref: news2.mv.net comp.os.msdos.djgpp:6834 From: Ian Miller Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.djgpp Subject: time_t question Date: Mon, 05 Aug 1996 12:11:35 +0100 Organization: DRA HASN Lines: 8 Message-ID: <3205D6E7.167EB0E7@dra.hmg.gb> NNTP-Posting-Host: 146.80.115.106 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: djgpp AT delorie DOT com DJ-Gateway: from newsgroup comp.os.msdos.djgpp I notice that time(), as required by ANSI C, returns -1 if the time is not available, but that its return type, time_t, is unsigned int. Of course the time *is* available in djgpp so this does not really matter. I just wonder why time_t is not a signed type. -- Ian Miller, DORSET, UK