| From: | "Marc G(dot) Fournier" <scrappy(at)hub(dot)org> |
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| To: | Ulrich Drepper <drepper(at)redhat(dot)com> |
| Cc: | Lamar Owen <lamar(dot)owen(at)wgcr(dot)org>, Thomas Lockhart <lockhart(at)fourpalms(dot)org>, Trond Eivind Glomsrød <teg(at)redhat(dot)com>, Hannu Krosing <hannu(at)tm(dot)ee>, Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>, Manuel Sugawara <masm(at)fciencias(dot)unam(dot)mx>, PostgreSQL Hackers List <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org> |
| Subject: | Re: Redhat 7.3 time manipulation bug |
| Date: | 2002-05-23 14:36:35 |
| Message-ID: | 20020523113614.A12810-100000@mail1.hub.org |
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On 22 May 2002, Ulrich Drepper wrote:
> On Wed, 2002-05-22 at 10:51, Lamar Owen wrote:
>
> > What isn't funny is Oliver Elphick's results on Debian, running glibc 2.2.5
> > (same as Red Hat 7.3's version).
>
> This is a completely different version. Once Debian updates (in a few
> years) they'll get the same result.
>
> If you are misusing interfaces you get what you deserve. At no time was
> it correct to use these functions for general date manipulation. It
> always only was allowed to use them to represent system times and there
> was no Unix system before the epoch. Therefore you argumentation is
> completely wrong.
>
> If you need date manipulation write your own code which work for all the
> times you want to represent.
We are Redhat, you will be assimilated
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