Re: AW: AW: AW: AW: AW: AW: [HACKERS] Re: tinterval - operator problems o n AI X

2001-01-19 Thread Peter Eisentraut
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

AW: AW: AW: AW: AW: AW: [HACKERS] Re: tinterval - operator problems o n AI X

2001-01-19 Thread Zeugswetter Andreas SB
> > > 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