Thread: Re: [PORTS] make check fails -- 8 hour time difference in old dates

"Robert J. Brown" <rj@elilabs.com> writes:
> I am installing this copy of postgresql-7.2.1 on a freshly installed
> copy of Red Hat Linux 7.3,
          ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

Complain to the glibc boys.  They gratitutously broke mktime() for
pre-1970 dates.  We're still looking for a workaround.

            regards, tom lane