Peter Schneider-Kamp <petersc@stud.ntnu.no> wrote: > The problem is that strptime returns an integer on my platform > (linux 2.2.13, glibc 2.1xx). afaik, X/Open and SUSv2 says char* I don't have a linux box within reach right now, but you could try forcing X/Open compatibility by inserting #define _XOPEN_SOURCE at the top of the file (before any #include's, at least). </F>