Trond Eivind Glomsrød wrote: > On Tue, 21 May 2002, Lamar Owen wrote: > > > On Tuesday 21 May 2002 11:04 am, Manuel Sugawara wrote: > > > I see. This behavior is consistent with the fact that mktime is > > > supposed to return -1 on error, but then is broken in every other Unix > > > implementation that I know. > > > > > Any other workaround than downgrade or install FreeBSD? > > > > Complain to Red Hat. Loudly. However, as this is a glibc change, other > > distributors are very likely to fold in this change sooner rather than > > later. > > Relying on nonstandardized/nondocumented behaviour is a program bug, not a > glibc bug. PostgreSQL needs fixing. Since we ship both, we're looking at > it, but glibc is not the component with a problem.
No one has really answered the question --- if the way PostgreSQL is using mktime() for pre-1970 dates is wrong, why do timezone databases have pre-1970 timezone information? I assume Linux does or the old mktime() wouldn't have worked for pre-1970 dates. -- Bruce Momjian | http://candle.pha.pa.us [EMAIL PROTECTED] | (610) 853-3000 + If your life is a hard drive, | 830 Blythe Avenue + Christ can be your backup. | Drexel Hill, Pennsylvania 19026 ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 2: you can get off all lists at once with the unregister command (send "unregister YourEmailAddressHere" to [EMAIL PROTECTED])