> > > 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.
> >
> > That seems like a reasonable answer to me, especially since we have
> > other platforms that behave that way. How can we do this --- just
> > test for isdst = -1 after the call, and assume that means failure?
Are you working on this, or can you point me to the parts of the code,
that would need change ?
Andreas