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		cryptonector on Jan 20, 2025 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: The surprising struggle to get a Unix Epoch time f... And the answer is to use `gmtime()`, which AIX doesn't have and which Windows calls something else, but, whatever, if you need to support AIX you can use an open source library.

shakna on Jan 20, 2025 [–]

AIX has gmtime [0], too. Since at least 7.1.

[0] https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/aix/7.1?topic=c-ctime-localtime-...

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