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

Thomas Lockhart writes:
> > On AIX mktime(3) leaves tm_isdst at -1 if it does not have timezone
> > info for that particular year and returns -1.
> > The following code then makes savings time out of the -1.
> > tz = (tm->tm_isdst ? (timezone - 3600) : timezone);
>
> Hmm. That description is consistant with what I see in the Linux
> man page. So I should check for (tm->tm_isdst > 0) rather than
> checking for non-zero?
>
> Would you like to test that on your machine? I'll try it here, and
> if successful will consider this a bug report and a necessary fix
> for 7.1.

I have machines running AIX 4.1.5, 4.2.1, and 4.3.3 if you would like
to send me your test programs.
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