checking in all the old panacean stuff

puttysrc/TIME.C

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+/*
+ * Portable implementation of ltime() for any ISO-C platform where
+ * time_t behaves. (In practice, we've found that platforms such as
+ * Windows and Mac have needed their own specialised implementations.)
+ */
+
+#include <time.h>
+#include <assert.h>
+
+struct tm ltime(void)
+{
+    time_t t;
+    time(&t);
+    assert (t != ((time_t)-1));
+    return *localtime(&t);
+}