Re: Redhat 7.3 time manipulation bug

From: Lamar Owen <lamar(dot)owen(at)wgcr(dot)org>
To: Manuel Sugawara <masm(at)fciencias(dot)unam(dot)mx>
Cc: PostgreSQL Hackers List <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>, teg(at)redhat(dot)com (Trond Eivind =?iso-8859-1?q?Glomsr=F8d?=)
Subject: Re: Redhat 7.3 time manipulation bug
Date: 2002-05-21 16:29:45
Message-ID: 200205211229.45382.lamar.owen@wgcr.org
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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.

Try using timestamp without timezone?
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Lamar Owen
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