Robert Elz <k...@munnari.oz.au> wrote: > Date: Fri, 21 Oct 2022 11:54:08 -0400 > From: Jan Schaumann <jscha...@netmeister.org> > Message-ID: <y1laogsi+onkz...@netmeister.org> > > | Right, but all that strikes me as too much to put into > | the manual page here. > > I agree, which is why I wondered if we should be giving any > details about how it is done at all.
I believe that it's useful for people to know that values outside the normal ranges are normalized, as well as what that might look like. That helps a lot when trying to determine _why_ the output of mktime(3) with a tm_sec = 180 yields no error and a value of tm_min += 3. I don't think many people would want to go and dig up the sources to make sense of this. Noting that values may cascade is useful (because that, too, is not obvious), but seems to me the limit of detail desired here, while still being useful. -Jan
