Thomas Lockhart <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> I'm not sure that tm_isdst == -1 is a legitimate indicator for mktime()
> failure on all platforms; it indicates "don't know", but afaik there is
> no defined behavior for the rest of the fields in that case. Can we be
> assured that for all platforms
I extracted from Ayal the info that he was using timezone
'Asia/Jerusalem'. That zone has the interesting property that
the DST transitions happen *at midnight*, not at a sane hour like 2AM.
I suspect that that is triggering various & sundry bugs in older
versions of mktime().
On a relatively re
> I dug through the conversions involved (basically date_in and date_out).
> AFAICS the only place where timezone could possibly get involved is that
> DecodeDateTime attempts to derive a timezone for the given date/time.
> It does this by calling mktime() (line 878 in datetime.c in current
> sour
