Date: Thu, 16 Dec 1999 12:40:05 -0800 (PST) From: Andre Albsmeier <andre.albsmeier@mchp.siemens.de> To: freebsd-bugs@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: bin/15520: mktime() fails under certain conditions Message-ID: <199912162040.MAA33173@freefall.freebsd.org>
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The following reply was made to PR bin/15520; it has been noted by GNATS. From: Andre Albsmeier <andre.albsmeier@mchp.siemens.de> To: Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@critter.freebsd.dk> Cc: Andre Albsmeier <andre.albsmeier@mchp.siemens.de>, FreeBSD-gnats-submit@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: bin/15520: mktime() fails under certain conditions Date: Thu, 16 Dec 1999 21:36:47 +0100 On Thu, 16-Dec-1999 at 21:24:41 +0100, Poul-Henning Kamp wrote: > In message <199912162016.VAA97593@internal>, Andre Albsmeier writes: > > >mktime() fails if it is called with a time that is exactly > >the moment when daylight saving time is starting. > > Well, at least for the "spring forward case" that time doesn't > exist: > > 01:59:57 > 01:59:58 > 01:59:59 > 03:00:00 > > There is no 02:00:00 that night. If they test for that, they're > crazy. Yes, the time does not exist. However, I only wonder it our behaviour of returning an error is correct in this case. I don't trust the GNU/Linux guys as much as I trust FreeBSD :-) but there might be a reason they are testing it. I was already asked in private email if the mktime() should succeed according to POSIX.1... Does somebody know anything about that? -Andre To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-bugs" in the body of the message
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