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

From Lamar Owen
Subject Re: Redhat 7.3 time manipulation bug
Date
Msg-id 200205211229.45382.lamar.owen@wgcr.org
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In response to Re: Redhat 7.3 time manipulation bug  (Manuel Sugawara <masm@fciencias.unam.mx>)
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On Tuesday 21 May 2002 11:04 am, Manuel Sugawara wrote:
> I see. This behavior is consistent with the fact that mktime is
> supposed to return -1 on error, but then is broken in every other Unix
> implementation that I know.

> Any other workaround than downgrade or install FreeBSD?

Complain to Red Hat.  Loudly. However, as this is a glibc change, other 
distributors are very likely to fold in this change sooner rather than later.

Try using timestamp without timezone?
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Lamar Owen
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