>From the Linux gnu libc timegm(3) manpage: For a portable version of timegm(), set the TZ environment variable to UTC, call mktime() and restore the value of TZ.
-Kyle H On 1/28/06, Dr. Stephen Henson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Sat, Jan 28, 2006, Joe Gluck wrote: > > > My mistake it was ASN1_TIME that is correct. > > > > But any way, I don't see a reason why I should not be able to convert > > it, if I don't care for milliseconds, time_t can represent times for > > up to 2038, so It should be ok to convert it to the time_t. > > > > An GeneralizedTime structure can represent years from 0000 to 9999. UtcTime > from 1950 to 2049. Either can be part of a Time structure which is represented > in OpenSSL as ASN1_TIME. > > The usual place such large data ranges are seen is in compliance tests > though and not commonly in practice. > > Some system time routines have undefined behaviour when asked to convert out > of range value to time_t. > > > Any ideas, the ASN1_cmp_time does much more than what I need, because > > I will be comparing at least once a second (If I check the last time > > to be at least one second earlier.) And because they are all in my > > cache for hopefully lets say a year, why not convert it to time_t and > > just check it with > current_gmt_time ? > > > > Well the other reason is that you need the function timegm or its equivalent > which is far from universally implemented. > > So if you have the equivalent to that and can sensibly do something for values > out of range then there's no reason you can't do that... > > Steve. > -- > Dr Stephen N. Henson. Email, S/MIME and PGP keys: see homepage > OpenSSL project core developer and freelance consultant. > Funding needed! Details on homepage. > Homepage: http://www.drh-consultancy.demon.co.uk > ______________________________________________________________________ > OpenSSL Project http://www.openssl.org > Development Mailing List openssl-dev@openssl.org > Automated List Manager [EMAIL PROTECTED] > ______________________________________________________________________ OpenSSL Project http://www.openssl.org Development Mailing List openssl-dev@openssl.org Automated List Manager [EMAIL PROTECTED]
