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From: Garrett Wollman <wollman@lcs.mit.edu>
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To: Peter Wemm <peter@FreeBSD.org>
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Subject: cvs commit: src/lib/libc/stdtime localtime.c
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<<On Sun, 1 Dec 2002 17:05:09 -0800 (PST), Peter Wemm <peter@FreeBSD.org> said:

>   This solves the problem of mktime/localtime looping on ia64.  Unfortunately,
>   the standards say that tm_year is an 'int', so we are still stuck with a
>   y2147483647 bug.

Not necessarily a bug: the Standard also says that, if any field in
the broken-down time is too narrow to represent the correct value,
localtime() should fail with [EOVERFLOW].

-GAWollman


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