Re: Trying to use AUTHOR_DATE

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"LT" == Linus Torvalds [off-list ref] writes:

LT> On Fri, 29 Apr 2005, Linus Torvalds wrote:

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I'll happily depend on libcurl, but I put my foot down on that tool of the 
devil called "autoconf".

LT> Btw, looking at curl's "getdate.c", it doesn't seem to be _that_ much more 
LT> different from the date parsing we used to have. In particular, it 
LT> actually uses "mktime()" twice and subtracts out the difference.

If we are going to lift code from somewhere, why don't we steal
from a pro who knows what he is doing?  

One careful implementation of my-mktime() I know of is the one
by Paul Eggert, found in patch (maketime.c::tm2time).