On Monday 20 May 2002 08:08 pm, Manuel Sugawara wrote: > > Where would we go to ferret out the source of this bug? More to the > > point: we need a test case in C that could expose this as a glibc > > bug.
> Seems like mktime(3) is having problems with dates before the > epoch. Attached is the a program to test this. The glibc source is now > downloading I will try to hunt down this bug but not until the next > week. It's not a bug. At least not according to the ISO C standard. See http://www.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/007904975/basedefs/xbd_chap04.html#tag_04_14 for the definition of 'Seconds Since the Epoch', then cross-reference to the man page of mktime. I don't like it any more than you do, but that is the letter of the standard. Thomas, any comments? Our implementation is broken, then. Thomas, is this fixable for a 7.2.x release, or something for 7.3? -- Lamar Owen WGCR Internet Radio 1 Peter 4:11 ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 5: Have you checked our extensive FAQ? http://www.postgresql.org/users-lounge/docs/faq.html
