On 22 May 2002, Ulrich Drepper wrote:
> On Wed, 2002-05-22 at 10:51, Lamar Owen wrote:
>
> > What isn't funny is Oliver Elphick's results on Debian, running glibc 2.2.5
> > (same as Red Hat 7.3's version).
>
> This is a completely different version. Once Debian updates (in a few
> years) they'll get the same result.
>
> If you are misusing interfaces you get what you deserve. At no time was
> it correct to use these functions for general date manipulation. It
> always only was allowed to use them to represent system times and there
> was no Unix system before the epoch. Therefore you argumentation is
> completely wrong.
>
> If you need date manipulation write your own code which work for all the
> times you want to represent.
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