Re: Redhat/glibc and postgre time "bug"

Lamar Owen wrote:
> On Tuesday 09 July 2002 11:39 am, Bruce Momjian wrote:
> > Lamar Owen wrote:
> > > Red Hat also does not consider mktime(3) to now be broken.
>
> > That is their opinion, of course.
>
> Yes, it is.  But they're not budging on this one.
>
> > > Having said that, a patch for this exists in the current Rawhide.  I am
> > > loath to include such in an 'official' RPMset for many reasons.
>
> > OK, what does that mean?  That there is a fix coming in a future
> > release?  I don't know what Rawhide is.
>
> I'm sorry -- Red Hat talking I am.

Well, Red Hat DB is going to look a little silly if it doesn't work on
pre-1970 dates.  Will Red Hat keep the pre-1970 timezone database info?
Is there another way of accessing that info without mktime().  Will
putting a corrected mktime early in the link path fix it?

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