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Date:      Mon, 14 Feb 2005 22:50:38 +1030
From:      "Daniel O'Connor" <doconnor@gsoft.com.au>
To:        freebsd-stable@freebsd.org
Cc:        Peter Jeremy <PeterJeremy@optushome.com.au>
Subject:   Re: mktime() bug? result strtotime() fail in PHP
Message-ID:  <200502142250.46036.doconnor@gsoft.com.au>
In-Reply-To: <4210941E.7070202@corp.grupos.com.br>
References:  <420D3CB0.2030101@corp.grupos.com.br> <20050212205104.GF62061@cirb503493.alcatel.com.au> <4210941E.7070202@corp.grupos.com.br>

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On Mon, 14 Feb 2005 22:35, Marcus Grando wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Peter Jeremy wrote:
> > To be pedantic, FreeBSD 4.11 is correct and the others are wrong.  If
>
>                                                    ^^^^^^
> Also FreeBSD 5.3-STABLE?
>
> > DST started at 2004-11-02 00:00 local time then you can't convert a loc=
al
> > time of 2004-11-02 00:00:00 because that time doesn't exist - your local
> > time goes 2004-11-01 23:59:59, 2004-11-02 01:00:00, 2004-11-02 01:00:01.
>
> I know, but timestamp return is better of that -1.

Not really..
You asked it to do an illegal operation. There are 2 choices - 1) return an=
d=20
error, 2) have the computer try and guess what you really meant.

2 leads to all sorts of bad things like other programs working around it to=
=20
get proper functionality etc..

=2D-=20
Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer
for Genesis Software - http://www.gsoft.com.au
"The nice thing about standards is that there
are so many of them to choose from."
  -- Andrew Tanenbaum
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