Re: Redhat 7.3 time manipulation bug - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Ulrich Drepper
Subject Re: Redhat 7.3 time manipulation bug
Date
Msg-id 1022090296.9215.166.camel@myware.mynet
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In response to Re: Redhat 7.3 time manipulation bug  (Lamar Owen <lamar.owen@wgcr.org>)
Responses Re: Redhat 7.3 time manipulation bug  (Michael Meskes <meskes@postgresql.org>)
Re: Redhat 7.3 time manipulation bug  ("Marc G. Fournier" <scrappy@hub.org>)
Re: Redhat 7.3 time manipulation bug  (cbbrowne@cbbrowne.com)
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On Wed, 2002-05-22 at 10:51, Lamar Owen wrote:

> What isn't funny is Oliver Elphick's results on Debian, running glibc 2.2.5
> (same as Red Hat 7.3's version).

This is a completely different version.  Once Debian updates (in a few
years) they'll get the same result.

If you are misusing interfaces you get what you deserve.  At no time was
it correct to use these functions for general date manipulation.  It
always only was allowed to use them to represent system times and there
was no Unix system before the epoch.  Therefore you argumentation is
completely wrong.

If you need date manipulation write your own code which work for all the
times you want to represent.

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