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Andrew Johnson <[email protected]> · Thu, 31 Jan 2008 08:59:52 -0600

Andrew Johnson wrote:

No, don't. Apply the attached patch instead, which is a diff between

R3.14.9 and the current head of the R3.14 branch and should work in all

timezones.

The Posix spec apparently does not require that a time_t be expressed in

seconds, although Unix historically has used that. The existing

(broken) code does not make that assumption, and neither does my patched

version (which I did tell Peter about several months ago), but a using

constant probably does.

Oops, maybe it *doesn't* actually solve Peter's problem, but it should

be the basis of any fix. Maybe we have to drop the mktime() calls

[unfortunately there's no posix call gm_mktime()] but could just divide

the constant by this->time_tSecPerTick?

Jeff, comments?

- Andrew
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