Yukihiro Matsumoto wrote: > I am going to release 1.8.3 preview1 on April 12, unless something > would stop me. Did you decide what to do about this? > Looking at the code in time.c, it's clear that time_sec() indirectly > calls either time_localtime() or time_gmtime(), both of which modify the > receiver. Is this side effect intended? If so, should the documentation > be updated? It was a bit of a suprise to me. Steve