> Pete Forman <pete.forman@westerngeco.com> writes:
> > Thinking about that a bit more, I think that tm_isdst should not be
> > written into.
>
> IIRC, setting isdst to -1 was necessary to get the right
> behavior across
> DST boundaries on more-mainstream systems. I do not think it's
> acceptable to do worse on systems with good time libraries in order to
> improve behavior on fundamentally broken ones.
Yes, the annoyance is, that localtime works for dates before 1970
but mktime doesn't. Best would probably be to assume no DST before
1970 on AIX and IRIX.
Andreas
