| From: | Thomas Lockhart <lockhart(at)fourpalms(dot)org> |
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| To: | Lamar Owen <lamar(dot)owen(at)wgcr(dot)org> |
| Cc: | Manuel Sugawara <masm(at)fciencias(dot)unam(dot)mx>, PostgreSQL Hackers List <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>, "Trond Eivind =?iso-8859-1?Q?Glomsr=F8d?=" <teg(at)redhat(dot)com>, brausen(at)yahoo(dot)com |
| Subject: | Re: Redhat 7.3 time manipulation bug |
| Date: | 2002-05-21 13:30:06 |
| Message-ID: | 3CEA4BDE.4E09F96E@fourpalms.org |
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> Our implementation is broken, then. Thomas, is this fixable for a 7.2.x
> release, or something for 7.3?
"Our implementation is broken, then" is really not a conclusion to be
reached. The de facto behavior of mktime() on all world-class
implementations is to support pre-1970 times. This has been true forever
afaik, certainly far longer than PostgreSQL (or Postgres) has been in
existance.
Any standard which chooses to ignore pre-1970 dates is fundamentally
broken imho, and I'm really ticked off that the glibc folks have so
glibly introduced a change of this nature and magnitude without further
discussion.
- Thomas
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