> This actually is part of the Ansi C standard.
>
> Solaris 8 manpage -----------------------
>
> The original values of the components may be either greater
> than or less than the specified range. For example, a tm_hour
> of -1 means 1 hour before midnight, tm_mday of 0 means the day
> preceding the current month, and tm_mon of -2 means 2 months
> before January of tm_year
This seems to be a Solaris extension. It does not contradict
C99, but I would not consider it portable. Neither section
7.23.1, "Components of time" nor 7.23.2.3, "The mktime
function" say anything with regard to values which exceed the
normal ranges as specified in 7.23.1.
- Sascha Experience IRCG
http://schumann.cx/ http://schumann.cx/ircg
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