On Wed, 2002-05-22 at 11:23, Tom Lane wrote: > Unix systems have > *always* interpreted time_t as a signed offset from the epoch.
No. This always was an accident if it happens. > Do you > really think that when Unixen were first built in the early 70s, there > was no interest in working with pre-1970 dates? Hardly likely. There never were files or any system events with these dates. Yes. And just to educate you and your likes: the majority of systems on this planet use mktime this way. I hate using this as an argument, but beside major Unixes M$ systems also do this. > But you will end up reverting this change due to pushback > from users. Want to make a side bet? Sure. Especially not everybody is that stubborn. -- ---------------. ,-. 1325 Chesapeake Terrace Ulrich Drepper \ ,-------------------' \ Sunnyvale, CA 94089 USA Red Hat `--' drepper at redhat.com `------------------------
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