bug#58224: 29.0.50; "make bootstrap" spuriously warns: "comp.el newer than byte-compiled file"

[Eli Zaretskii]

> Date: Sun, 2 Oct 2022 15:38:25 +0000
> Cc: stefankangas@gmail.com, 58224@debbugs.gnu.org
> From: Alan Mackenzie <acm@muc.de>
> 
> In lread.c I've got:
> 
>   struct timespec epoch_timespec = {(time_t)0, 0}; /* 1970-01-01T00:00 UTC */ 
> 
> , which clearly isn't satisfactory.

I'm not sure I follow: why not satisfactory?

> Can you (or anybody else) give me a clue as how to convert a human
> readable time into a struct timespec?  I've spent most of the
> afternoon searching and grepping lots of .h files, and haven't come
> up with anything, yet.

Is mktime the function you are after?