Re: Redhat 7.3 time manipulation bug

Manuel Sugawara <masm@fciencias.unam.mx>

From: Manuel Sugawara <masm@fciencias.unam.mx>

To: Lamar Owen <lamar.owen@wgcr.org>

Cc: PostgreSQL Hackers List <pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org>, teg@redhat.com (Trond Eivind Glomsrød ), brausen@yahoo.com

Date: 2002-05-21T00:08:07Z

Lists: pgsql-hackers

Lamar Owen <lamar.owen@wgcr.org> writes:

> Where would we go to ferret out the source of this bug?  More to the
> point: we need a test case in C that could expose this as a glibc
> bug.  

Seems like mktime(3) is having problems with dates before the
epoch. Attached is the a program to test this. The glibc source is now
downloading I will try to hunt down this bug but not until the next
week.

Regards,
Manuel.