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Date: Fri, 07 Jan 2000 12:22:23 -0600
To: Alexander Langer <alex@big.endian.de>, hackers@FreeBSD.ORG
From: "G. Adam Stanislav" <adam@whizkidtech.net>
Subject: Re: mktime(3) and strange struct tm entries
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At 17:14 31-12-1999 +0100, Alexander Langer wrote:
>mktime(3) with this tm returns the date 1 Dezember.
>
>Does POSIX want this?
>Does anyone have the specs and could take a look?
>Or is this a bug?

Says POSIX Programmer's Guide, by Donald Lewine: "The mktime() function is
not required to reject invalid dates. For example, November 55th may be
equivalent to December 25th."

Does that answer your questions?

Cheers,
Adam


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