Professional Software Engineering:
Ruud H.G. van Tol:
If you only need the date, you can let a cron-job create a DATE.INC
once per day, with code in it that sets some variables:
Hah, this assumes that the user has the ability to run crontab to
create the job in the first place.
No, you can also ask somebody else to daily create such a DATE.INC in a
place that any user can read from.
I'd be happy to call a library date without the overhead of opening
and parsing a file, even if that seems minour. It's an OPEN file, so
there's kernel limitations to consider on large scale systems.
It is a read-only file that is small enough to live in a cache. It can
of course also include the seconds since the epoch.
--
Grtz, Ruud
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