Re: Algorithm to exploit 32 bit time functions to do time zone calculations

Thorsten Glaser <[email protected]> Wed, 17 Sep 2008 19:55:45 +0000 (UTC)
Newsgroups gmane.os.miros.general,gmane.comp.lib.libtai
Message-ID <[email protected]>
Michael G Schwern dixit:

>Speaking of asctime(), I think this is a y2**31 bug in asctime3:

Two of them even, please look at asctime.c in cvsweb, I fixed it =E2=98=BA
(The allbsd.org mirror will not update before 04:10 UTC though you
can use http://www.mirbsd.org/cvs.cgi/)

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