[lug] localtime() returns pointer - free it?

[Michael J. Hammel]

Thus spoke Tkil
> so far as i know, this is a common response.  as i mentioned above,
> this interface is not thread-safe; there might be alternatives that
> *are* thread-safe, and those would probably have different interfaces
> as well as probably adding the requirement that you provide the
> structure to be filled in.

I've never really worried about being threadsafe since I've never written
threaded code, but for argument sake - is there an alternative for
retrieving local time that *is* thread safe?

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