> > Okay, so you call mktime with a pre-1970 date once when the system starts
> > up or when the particular function is first used and then save the result
> > in a static variable.
> Can anybody else give an OK to this approach, that affects all platforms ?
> I am not convinced, that this is the way to go.
Nope. So far we have consensus that #ifdef <something> is the way to go
(I just made some changes to the date/time stuff to isolate the #ifdef
__CYGWIN__ garbage, and would like to avoid more cruft), but we are not
unanimous on the way to get that set.
- Thomas