Re: Redhat 7.3 time manipulation bug

Ulrich Drepper <drepper@redhat.com>

From: Ulrich Drepper <drepper@redhat.com>

To: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>

Cc: Lamar Owen <lamar.owen@wgcr.org>, Thomas Lockhart <lockhart@fourpalms.org>, Trond Eivind Glomsrød <teg@redhat.com>, Hannu Krosing <hannu@tm.ee>, Manuel Sugawara <masm@fciencias.unam.mx>, PostgreSQL Hackers List <pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org>

Date: 2002-05-22T18:40:58Z

Lists: pgsql-hackers

On Wed, 2002-05-22 at 11:23, Tom Lane wrote:

> Unix systems have
> *always* interpreted time_t as a signed offset from the epoch.

No.  This always was an accident if it happens.

> Do you
> really think that when Unixen were first built in the early 70s, there
> was no interest in working with pre-1970 dates?  Hardly likely.

There never were files or any system events with these dates.  Yes.

And just to educate you and your likes: the majority of systems on this
planet use mktime this way.  I hate using this as an argument, but
beside major Unixes M$ systems also do this.

> But you will end up reverting this change due to pushback
> from users.  Want to make a side bet?

Sure.  Especially not everybody is that stubborn.

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