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Re: Redhat 7.3 time manipulation bug

Lee Kindness <lkindness@csl.co.uk>

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From: Lee Kindness <lkindness@csl.co.uk>
To: Thomas Lockhart <lockhart@fourpalms.org>
Cc: Hannu Krosing <hannu@tm.ee>, "Trond Eivind Glomsrød " <teg@redhat.com>, Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>, Lamar Owen <lamar.owen@wgcr.org>, Manuel Sugawara <masm@fciencias.unam.mx>, PostgreSQL Hackers List <pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org>, Lee Kindness <lkindness@csl.co.uk>
Date: 2002-05-22T13:57:25Z
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Thomas Lockhart writes:
 > Right. IBM.
 > > Most likely they have fixed it by now ...
 > Nope, though I don't know for sure. Anyone here have a recent AIX
 > machine to test?

Well on AIX 4.3.3 the output from  Lamar's earlier test program is:

 The system thinks 11/30/1969 is a timestamp of -1

and tm_isdst is left at -1...

I could boot the machine into 5.0 too, but going by the AIX 5L
manpages it still returns -1:

 Note: The mktime subroutine cannot convert time values before
 00:00:00 UTC, January 1, 1970 and after 03:14:07 UTC, January 19,
 2038.

And getting an Irix 5.3 box up and running would be a chore!

Lee.