| From: | Tatsuo Ishii <t-ishii(at)sra(dot)co(dot)jp> |
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| To: | hannu(at)tm(dot)ee |
| Cc: | lockhart(at)fourpalms(dot)org, teg(at)redhat(dot)com, tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us, lamar(dot)owen(at)wgcr(dot)org, masm(at)fciencias(dot)unam(dot)mx, pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org |
| Subject: | Re: Redhat 7.3 time manipulation bug |
| Date: | 2002-05-23 01:14:01 |
| Message-ID: | 20020523.101401.23009001.t-ishii@sra.co.jp |
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> On Wed, 2002-05-22 at 15:30, Thomas Lockhart wrote:
> > > IIRC the spec is not _really_ broken - it still allows the correct
> > > behaviour :)
> >
> > Yes.
> >
> > > The fact the ISO spec is broken usually means that at least one of the
> > > big vendors involved in ISO spec creation must have had a broken
> > > implementation at that time.
> >
> > Right. IBM.
> >
> > > Most likely they have fixed it by now ...
> >
> > Nope, though I don't know for sure. Anyone here have a recent AIX
> > machine to test?
> >
> > > Does anyone know _any_ other libc that has this behaviour ?
> >
> > AIX and (I think) Irix.
>
> How do we currently support AIX/Irix ?
Why should we rely on broken glibc and the standard? Why don't we make
our own mktime() and use it on all platforms.
--
Tatsuo Ishii
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