Someday I might forgive the standards bodies for omitting timegm().

Someday I might forgive the standards bodies for omitting timegm().
Maybe.  In the meantime, my workarounds for trying to coax UTC without
timegm() are getting uglier and uglier.  Apparently, some systems
don't support setenv()/unsetenv(), so you can't set the TZ env var and
hope thereby to coax mktime() into generating UTC.  Without that, I
don't see a really good alternative to just giving up and converting to
localtime with mktime().  (I suppose I should research the Perl library
approach for computing an inverse function to gmtime(); that might
actually be simpler than this growing list of hacks.)