Re: Redhat 7.3 time manipulation bug

Marc Fournier <scrappy@hub.org>

From: "Marc G. Fournier" <scrappy@hub.org>

To: Ulrich Drepper <drepper@redhat.com>

Cc: Lamar Owen <lamar.owen@wgcr.org>, Thomas Lockhart <lockhart@fourpalms.org>, 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: 2002-05-23T14:36:35Z

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On 22 May 2002, Ulrich Drepper wrote:

> On Wed, 2002-05-22 at 10:51, Lamar Owen wrote:
>
> > What isn't funny is Oliver Elphick's results on Debian, running glibc 2.2.5
> > (same as Red Hat 7.3's version).
>
> This is a completely different version.  Once Debian updates (in a few
> years) they'll get the same result.
>
> If you are misusing interfaces you get what you deserve.  At no time was
> it correct to use these functions for general date manipulation.  It
> always only was allowed to use them to represent system times and there
> was no Unix system before the epoch.  Therefore you argumentation is
> completely wrong.
>
> If you need date manipulation write your own code which work for all the
> times you want to represent.

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