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mktime() hangs for dates before 1970
From: |
Benjamin Lindner |
Subject: |
mktime() hangs for dates before 1970 |
Date: |
Thu, 27 Jan 2011 12:52:02 +0100 |
Hello list,
Using gnulib's mktime on MinGW platform, I found that a call to
mktime() hangs for dates before 1970-01-01 01:00:00.
To reproduce, I compiled mktime.c into an executable file as
instructed at the bottom of the source code.
> mktime 1970-01-01 01:00:00
mktime returns 0 == 1970-01-01 01:00:00 yday 000 wday 4 isdst 0
but
> mktime 1970-01-01 00:59:59
(no response)
and the same happens for older dates (The original occurence was a
testcase in octave's source code using the date 03/13/1962)
benjamin
- mktime() hangs for dates before 1970,
Benjamin Lindner <=
- Re: mktime() hangs for dates before 1970, Paul Eggert, 2011/01/27
- Re: mktime() hangs for dates before 1970, Benjamin Lindner, 2011/01/28
- Re: mktime() hangs for dates before 1970, Ralf Wildenhues, 2011/01/30
- Re: mktime() hangs for dates before 1970, Paul Eggert, 2011/01/30
- Re: mktime() hangs for dates before 1970, Ralf Wildenhues, 2011/01/30
- Re: mktime() hangs for dates before 1970, Paul Eggert, 2011/01/30
- Re: mktime() hangs for dates before 1970, Ralf Wildenhues, 2011/01/30