Re: Redhat 7.3 time manipulation bug

Trond Eivind Glomsrd wrote:
> On Tue, 21 May 2002, Lamar Owen wrote:
>
> > On Tuesday 21 May 2002 11:04 am, Manuel Sugawara wrote:
> > > I see. This behavior is consistent with the fact that mktime is
> > > supposed to return -1 on error, but then is broken in every other Unix
> > > implementation that I know.
> >
> > > Any other workaround than downgrade or install FreeBSD?
> >
> > Complain to Red Hat. Loudly. However, as this is a glibc change, other
> > distributors are very likely to fold in this change sooner rather than
> > later.
>
> Relying on nonstandardized/nondocumented behaviour is a program bug, not a
> glibc bug. PostgreSQL needs fixing. Since we ship both, we're looking at
> it, but glibc is not the component with a problem.

No one has really answered the question --- if the way PostgreSQL is
using mktime() for pre-1970 dates is wrong, why do timezone databases
have pre-1970 timezone information?

I assume Linux does or the old mktime() wouldn't have worked for
pre-1970 dates.

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