Oliver Elphick <[email protected]> writes:
> It seems that Red Hat's latest glibc has introduced a strict
> interpretation of the ISO C mktime() definition, such that dates before
> 1970 are now considered to be out of range. This has caused breakage of
> any application that relies on the old behaviour, such as PostgreSQL.
Please get the facts right: The glibc CVS version has such a change in
it - and Red Hat used as their glibc a version that has this change
incorporated. The change will be in the next official glibc release
and has been discussed on the glibc lists,
Andreas
> It is also the case that neither Debian's nor Suse's glibc show this
> change; nor is it mentioned in their changelogs..
>
> Do you know why this change has occurred only in Red Hat's version? Are
> the distributions' version numbers out of sync?
>
> A small program for testing is attached. On Debian's latest libc6 it
> reports a timestamp of -31712400, but on latest Red Hat it apparently
> reports -1.
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