[Monotone-devel] Re: dates in monotone

[Markus Wanner]

Hi,

Zack Weinberg wrote:
> Yes.  Some (not all) Windows C runtime libraries (or possibly
> operating system major releases, I didn't investigate this in detail)
> use a different epoch and/or don't implement the distinction between
> UTC and local time correctly.   It would also be a problem if we
> wanted to port to various other systems not in wide use anymore; VMS
> and classic MacOS come to mind.

Okay, thanks. Looks like enough reason to leave our own implementations
of gmtime() and mktime() in there. I will mention these OSes in the
comments, then.

Any objections against landing nvm.dates on mainline?

Regards

Markus Wanner