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Re: Redhat 7.3 time manipulation bug

Marc Fournier <scrappy@hub.org>

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From: "Marc G. Fournier" <scrappy@hub.org>
To: Ulrich Drepper <drepper@redhat.com>
Cc: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>, 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: 2002-05-23T14:39:38Z
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On 22 May 2002, Ulrich Drepper wrote:

> 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.

M$ systems crashes regularly too ... is Redhat going to adopt that too?