Re: Psql 7.2.1 Regress tests failed on RedHat 7.3 - Mailing list pgsql-general

From Tom Lane
Subject Re: Psql 7.2.1 Regress tests failed on RedHat 7.3
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Msg-id 17682.1021952389@sss.pgh.pa.us
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In response to Re: Psql 7.2.1 Regress tests failed on RedHat 7.3  (Lamar Owen <lamar.owen@wgcr.org>)
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Lamar Owen <lamar.owen@wgcr.org> writes:
> Well, I went to bat for this a little bit ago, relating to a bug report, but
> I've struck out.  The ISO C standard spells it out plainly that dates before
> 1970 are just simply illegal for mktime and friends.

Well, since glibc apparently has no higher ambition than to work for
post-1970 dates, we may have little choice but to throw out mktime and
implement our own timezone library.  Ugh.  It is pretty damn annoying
that they aren't interested in fixing their problem...

            regards, tom lane

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