Zeugswetter Andreas SB writes:
> We do not need any execution time checks for this at all. The objective is
> to determine whether mktime works for any results that would be negative.
> On AIX and IRIX all calls to mktime for dates before 1970 lead to a result of
> -1, and the configure test is s
> > > You don't need to put this check into configure, you can just
> > > do the check after mktime() is used.
> >
> > No, we need that info for the output functions that only use localtime.
> > The intent is, to not use DST before 1970 on platforms that don't have
> > mktime for dates before 197