Roland McGrath <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Off hand I cannot see why we clip the given values at all.
I'd guess that a reasonable amount of glibc code will break if the UTC offset is enormous (e.g., on the order of 2**31 seconds). Also, I wouldn't be surprised if some of the time-zone-adjusting code (e.g., tzset, mktime) assumes relatively-sane UTC offsets, on the order of days rather than years. I suspect that these assumptions won't dump core if violated (i.e., you'll get unspecified results, not undefined behavior) but it'd take a reasonable amount of work to verify this suspicion. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
