{"id":6311,"date":"2014-09-29T23:22:55","date_gmt":"2014-09-30T03:22:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/esr.ibiblio.org\/?p=6311"},"modified":"2014-09-30T00:14:54","modified_gmt":"2014-09-30T04:14:54","slug":"announcing-time-clock-and-calendar-programming-in-c","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/esr.ibiblio.org\/?p=6311","title":{"rendered":"Announcing: Time, Clock, and Calendar Programming In C"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The C\/UNIX library support for time and calendar programming is a nasty mess of historical contingency. I have grown tired of having to re-learn its quirks every  time I&#8217;ve had to deal with it, so I&#8217;m doing something about that.<\/p>\n<p>Announcing <a href=\"http:\/\/www.catb.org\/esr\/time-programming\/\">Time, Clock, and Calendar Programming In C<\/a>, a document which attempts to chart the historical clutter (so you can ignore it once you know why it&#8217;s there) and explain the mysteries.<\/p>\n<p>What I&#8217;ve released is an 0.9 beta version. My hope is that it will rapidly attract some thoroughgoing reviews so I can release a 1.0 in a week or so. More than that,  I would welcome a subject matter expert as a collaborator.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The C\/UNIX library support for time and calendar programming is a nasty mess of historical contingency. I have grown tired of having to re-learn its quirks every time I&#8217;ve had to deal with it, so I&#8217;m doing something about that. Announcing Time, Clock, and Calendar Programming In C, a document which attempts to chart the&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/esr.ibiblio.org\/?p=6311\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Announcing: Time, Clock, and Calendar Programming In C<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6311","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-software","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/esr.ibiblio.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6311","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/esr.ibiblio.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/esr.ibiblio.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/esr.ibiblio.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/esr.ibiblio.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6311"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/esr.ibiblio.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6311\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6313,"href":"http:\/\/esr.ibiblio.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6311\/revisions\/6313"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/esr.ibiblio.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6311"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/esr.ibiblio.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6311"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/esr.ibiblio.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6311"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}