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Date:      Tue, 24 Aug 2004 11:36:52 +0400
From:      Andrey Chernov <ache@nagual.pp.ru>
To:        Peter Wemm <peter@FreeBSD.ORG>
Cc:        cvs-all@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: cvs commit: src/lib/libc/stdtime localtime.c
Message-ID:  <20040824073652.GA25729@nagual.pp.ru>
In-Reply-To: <200408240015.i7O0Fc94099246@repoman.freebsd.org>
References:  <200408240015.i7O0Fc94099246@repoman.freebsd.org>

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On Tue, Aug 24, 2004 at 12:15:38AM +0000, Peter Wemm wrote:

>   calendar jumped by two weeks etc, simply disallow negative (ie: prior to
>   1900) years.

You break the whole idea of our imported time zones data which try to 
cover all prior 1900 national zone changes too (look in files). I suspect 
it may cause visible effects for anyone who try to output i.e. calendar 
for past times, say, for historical reasons.

-- 
Andrey Chernov | http://ache.pp.ru/



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