AW: AW: AW: Re: tinterval - operator problems on AIX

From: Zeugswetter Andreas SB <ZeugswetterA(at)wien(dot)spardat(dot)at>
To: "'lockhart(at)fourpalms(dot)org'" <lockhart(at)fourpalms(dot)org>, Pete Forman <pete(dot)forman(at)westerngeco(dot)com>
Cc: Zeugswetter Andreas SB <ZeugswetterA(at)wien(dot)spardat(dot)at>, pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: AW: AW: AW: Re: tinterval - operator problems on AIX
Date: 2001-01-11 16:06:17
Message-ID: 11C1E6749A55D411A9670001FA6879633681AB@sdexcsrv1.f000.d0188.sd.spardat.at
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> Oh, so AIX and IRIX have just one-line time zone databases? Yuck.
>
> How about having some #if BROKEN_TIMEZONE_DATABASE code which uses both
> mktime() and localtime() to derive the correct time zone? That is, call
> mktime to get a time_t, then call localtime() to get the time zone info,
> but only on platforms which do not get a complete result from just the
> call to mktime(). In fact, we *could* check for tm->tm_isdst coming back
> "-1" for every platform, then call localtime() to make a last stab at
> getting a good value.

How would we construct a valid time_t from the struct tm without mktime?

Andreas

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