Re: Redhat 7.3 time manipulation bug

From: Lamar Owen <lamar(dot)owen(at)wgcr(dot)org>
To: Oliver Elphick <olly(at)lfix(dot)co(dot)uk>
Cc: PostgreSQL Hackers List <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: Redhat 7.3 time manipulation bug
Date: 2002-05-21 22:47:05
Message-ID: 200205211847.05321.lamar.owen@wgcr.org
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On Tuesday 21 May 2002 06:09 pm, Oliver Elphick wrote:
> On Tue, 2002-05-21 at 18:24, Lamar Owen wrote:
> > In any case, this isn't just a Red Hat problem, as it's going to cause
> > problems with the use of timestamps on ANY glibc 2.2.5 dist. That's more
> > than Red Hat, by a large margin.

> I'm running glibc 2.2.5 on Debian and all regression tests pass OK (with
> make check). I don't see any note in the glibc Debian changelog about
> reversing an upstream change to mktime().

> I missed the first messages in this thread and I can't find them in the
> archive. What should I be looking for to see if I have the problem you
> have encountered or to see why I don't have it if I ought to have?

Hmmm. Compile and run the attached program. If you get -1, it's the new
behavior. It might be interesting to see the differences here.....
--
Lamar Owen
WGCR Internet Radio
1 Peter 4:11

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mktime-bug.c text/x-csrc 433 bytes

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