UTC time conversion to internal time

[Martin v. Loewis]

"Colin Brown" <cbrown at met.co.nz> writes:

> I wish to convert UTC times to internal time representation (the inverse of
> time.gmtime). There does not seem to be any function to do this. Does anyone
> have a clean solution please.

Surprisingly, this is not supported in the standard C library, and
hence also not supported in Python.

Regards,
Martin