On Friday 18 December 2015 00:02:17 David Howells wrote: > ISO 8601 format dates permit two different encodings of midnight - 00:00:00 > and 24:00:00 - the first is midnight today and the second is midnight > tomorrow and is exactly equivalent to the first with tomorrow's date. > > Note that the implementation of mktime64() doesn't actually need to be > changed to handle this - the multiplication by 3600 of the hour will take > care of it automatically. However, we should document that this handling > is done in mktime64() and is thus in a common place in the kernel. > > This handling is required for X.509 certificate parsing which can be given > ISO 8601 dates. > > Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowe...@redhat.com> > cc: John Stultz <john.stu...@linaro.org> > cc: Arnd Bergmann <a...@arndb.de> > cc: stable@vger.kernel.org >
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