Date: Thu, 16 Dec 1999 16:44:26 -0500 (EST) From: Garrett Wollman <wollman@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu> To: Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@critter.freebsd.dk> Cc: freebsd-bugs@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: bin/15520: mktime() fails under certain conditions Message-ID: <199912162144.QAA40600@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu> In-Reply-To: <199912162100.NAA34729@freefall.freebsd.org> References: <199912162100.NAA34729@freefall.freebsd.org>
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<<On Thu, 16 Dec 1999 13:00:02 -0800 (PST), Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@critter.freebsd.dk> said: > It does not describe what should happen if I ask it to make a time > out of 25:100:100, but I guess most of us can agree what it should > do. ANSI says that all fields are normalized. > Ie, does 02:10:00 represent > 01:59:59 + 10:59 = 03:10:00 > or > 03:00:00 - 50:00 = 01:10:00 Which is why tm_isdst needs to be set to indicate which one. When asked to ``figure it out'', mktime() correctly responds that it can't. -GAWollman -- Garrett A. Wollman | O Siem / We are all family / O Siem / We're all the same wollman@lcs.mit.edu | O Siem / The fires of freedom Opinions not those of| Dance in the burning flame MIT, LCS, CRS, or NSA| - Susan Aglukark and Chad Irschick To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-bugs" in the body of the message
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