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Date:      Fri, 19 Jan 2007 16:16:17 +0100
From:      Wilko Bulte <wb@freebie.xs4all.nl>
To:        Warner Losh <imp@FreeBSD.ORG>
Cc:        cvs-src@FreeBSD.ORG, src-committers@FreeBSD.ORG, cvs-all@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: cvs commit: src/lib/libc/stdtime localtime.c
Message-ID:  <20070119151617.GA19092@freebie.xs4all.nl>
In-Reply-To: <200701190116.l0J1GZcD021864@repoman.freebsd.org>
References:  <200701190116.l0J1GZcD021864@repoman.freebsd.org>

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On Fri, Jan 19, 2007 at 01:16:35AM +0000, Warner Losh wrote..
> imp         2007-01-19 01:16:35 UTC
> 
>   FreeBSD src repository
> 
>   Modified files:
>     lib/libc/stdtime     localtime.c 
>   Log:
>   On FreeBSD/arm, any value > 50 bits will result in a rediculously huge
>   number being returned for mktime and timegm calls.  Choose 48 because
>   that works well.  This does reduce the dynamic range of tm_year from
>   about 2 billion years down to "only" about 9 million years.  Please
>   contact me if this restriction poses a problem.

You mean, you want to be notified at least 0.5 million years in advance
of any pending problem? ;-)

-- 
Wilko Bulte				wilko@FreeBSD.org



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