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Re: Redhat 7.3 time manipulation bug

Lamar Owen <lamar.owen@wgcr.org>

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From: Lamar Owen <lamar.owen@wgcr.org>
To: Ulrich Drepper <drepper@redhat.com>, Thomas Lockhart <lockhart@fourpalms.org>
Cc: Trond Eivind Glomsrød <teg@redhat.com>, Hannu Krosing <hannu@tm.ee>, Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>, Manuel Sugawara <masm@fciencias.unam.mx>, PostgreSQL Hackers List <pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org>
Date: 2002-05-22T17:51:20Z
Lists: pgsql-hackers 
On Wednesday 22 May 2002 01:12 pm, Ulrich Drepper wrote:
> On Wed, 2002-05-22 at 08:00, Thomas Lockhart wrote:
> > > > If so, can we get them to champion changes which would comply with
> > > > the standard but remove this arbitrary breakage?

> > > Unlikely. They already saw (and participated, at least Ulrich) a thread
> > > on this with Lamar. Their take is "this is the  standard, you should do
> > > what the standard says and not rely on undocumented, non-standardized
> > > sideeffects.

> > OK. They must be new guys.

> :-) Very funny.

What isn't funny is Oliver Elphick's results on Debian, running glibc 2.2.5 
(same as Red Hat 7.3's version).  They are different.  And, IMO, those 
results are the 'expected' results on a unixoid system, ISO or no ISO.
-- 
Lamar Owen
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