Re: Redhat 7.3 time manipulation bug

From: Oliver Elphick <olly(at)lfix(dot)co(dot)uk>
To: Lamar Owen <lamar(dot)owen(at)wgcr(dot)org>
Cc: PostgreSQL Hackers List <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: Redhat 7.3 time manipulation bug
Date: 2002-05-22 04:18:43
Message-ID: 1022041123.1419.694.camel@linda
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On Tue, 2002-05-21 at 23:47, Lamar Owen wrote:
> 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.....

$ a.out
The system thinks 11/30/1969 is a timestamp of -176400
$ dpkg -l libc6
...
||/ Name Version Description
+++-==============-==============-============================================
ii libc6 2.2.5-6 GNU C Library: Shared libraries and Timezone

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