Zeugswetter Andreas SB writes:

> > I do not have the original thread where Andreas describes the behavior
> > of mktime() on his machine. Andreas, can you suggest a simple configure
> > test to be used?
>
> #include <time.h>
> int main()
> {
>     struct tm tt, *tm=&tt;
>     int i = -50000000;
>     tm = localtime (&i);
>     i = mktime (tm);
>     if (i != -50000000)   /* on AIX this check could also be (i == -1) */
>     {
>         printf("ERROR: mktime(3) does not correctly support datetimes before 
>1970\n");
>         return(1);
>     }
> }

You don't need to put this check into configure, you can just do the check
after mktime() is used.

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Peter Eisentraut      [EMAIL PROTECTED]       http://yi.org/peter-e/

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