Re: pgsql-server/src/backend/utils/adt datetime.c

From: Sean Chittenden <sean(at)chittenden(dot)org>
To: Tom Lane <tgl(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Cc: pgsql-committers(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: pgsql-server/src/backend/utils/adt datetime.c
Date: 2002-09-03 20:31:28
Message-ID: 20020903203128.GB59269@ninja1.internal
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> CVSROOT: /cvsroot
> Module name: pgsql-server
> Changes by: tgl(at)postgresql(dot)org 02/09/03 15:46:32
>
> Modified files:
> src/backend/utils/adt: datetime.c
>
> Log message:
> Work around mktime() brain damage in recent versions of glibc by using
> a series of localtime() calls to determine the local timezone offset
> when mktime() fails. This eliminates regression failures on RHL 7.3,
> and should continue to work until it occurs to the glibc boys to break
> localtime() as well. By then I hope we'll have our own timezone code...

I think this closes bug #630 as well (inserting data at 2am on a
timzone shit). -sc

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Sean Chittenden

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