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kazinator on March 4, 2021 | parent | context | favorite | on: Git's list of banned C functions

gmtime is just not thread-safe that's all, since it returns a static structure; gmtime_r is not banned.

syncsynchalt on March 4, 2021 [–]

Thanks, I am now a decade out of the C game and I was wracking my brain on what the problem with gmtime would be. My best guess was dodgy is_dst portability /shrug

EdwardDiego on March 5, 2021 | [–]

Yeah, found this which explained it for me :)

https://lgtm.com/rules/2154840805/

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