I wrote: > Hmm. Looking at the code for that, it knows nothing of timezones. > It's complaining that mktime() failed, which perhaps is because of > bad data in the archive header ... but I'm betting it has something > to do with failing to initialize all the fields of the struct tm > it passes.
After reading the mktime man page, I take that back --- it's not supposed to consider the passed-in values of the tm_wday and tm_yday fields. The only documented reason for mktime to fail is if the supplied values map to something outside the range of time_t, which seems a tad unlikely. It'd be interesting perhaps to see the raw header of your dump file, along the lines of "od -c dumpfile | head".
