Re: Redhat 7.3 time manipulation bug

From: Manuel Sugawara <masm(at)fciencias(dot)unam(dot)mx>
To: Lamar Owen <lamar(dot)owen(at)wgcr(dot)org>
Cc: PostgreSQL Hackers List <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>, teg(at)redhat(dot)com (Trond Eivind =?iso-8859-1?q?Glomsr=F8d?=), brausen(at)yahoo(dot)com
Subject: Re: Redhat 7.3 time manipulation bug
Date: 2002-05-21 00:08:07
Message-ID: m31yc6cqhk.fsf@dep4.fciencias.unam.mx
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Lamar Owen <lamar(dot)owen(at)wgcr(dot)org> writes:

> Where would we go to ferret out the source of this bug? More to the
> point: we need a test case in C that could expose this as a glibc
> bug.

Seems like mktime(3) is having problems with dates before the
epoch. Attached is the a program to test this. The glibc source is now
downloading I will try to hunt down this bug but not until the next
week.

Regards,
Manuel.

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