[HACKERS added to cc:, GENERAL dropped] On Monday 20 May 2002 11:39 pm, Tom Lane wrote: > Lamar Owen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > Well, I went to bat for this a little bit ago, relating to a bug report, > > but I've struck out. The ISO C standard spells it out plainly that dates > > before 1970 are just simply illegal for mktime and friends.
> Well, since glibc apparently has no higher ambition than to work for > post-1970 dates, we may have little choice but to throw out mktime and > implement our own timezone library. Ugh. It is pretty damn annoying > that they aren't interested in fixing their problem... They are just wanting to be standard. I know this; I just can't say how I know this. But the link to the ISO definition is http://www.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/007904975/basedefs/xbd_chap04.html#tag_04_14 FWIW. While I don't agree with the standard, trying to be standard isn't really a 'problem'. Relying on a side-effect of a nonstandard call is the problem. Can we pull in the BSD C library's mktime()? OR otherwise utilize it to fit this bill? Looking at src/backend/utils/adt/datetime.c indicates that it might not be too difficult. It was WISE to centralize the use of mktime in the one function, it appears. -- Lamar Owen WGCR Internet Radio 1 Peter 4:11 ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 3: if posting/reading through Usenet, please send an appropriate subscribe-nomail command to [EMAIL PROTECTED] so that your message can get through to the mailing list cleanly
