Big picture...

[Hal Murray]

>> If we are using a build time, we can run an external script
>> to generate the date in a convenient format.
>> date -u +%s looks good to me.
> Maybe.  Almost.  How are we going to do this under Windows?  Are we giving
> up on a Windows port?  Because POSIX API conformance tells us we can get at
> POSIX time froom C, but we have no guarantee that date(1) will exist. 

Is that going to be the biggest problem with Windows?

I know next to nothing about Windows.  Does their POSIX support include only 
c code or will it also include shell stuff?  How many programs outside of sh 
itself do we depend on?  Will autorevision work?  Does POSIX include a date 
command?  ...



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