Re: pgsql-server/src/backend/utils/adt datetime.c

Tom, is there some standard they can point to to break localtime() too?

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Sean Chittenden wrote:
> > CVSROOT:    /cvsroot
> > Module name:    pgsql-server
> > Changes by:    tgl@postgresql.org    02/09/03 15:46:32
> >
> > Modified files:
> >     src/backend/utils/adt: datetime.c
> >
> > Log message:
> >     Work around mktime() brain damage in recent versions of glibc by using
> >     a series of localtime() calls to determine the local timezone offset
> >     when mktime() fails.  This eliminates regression failures on RHL 7.3,
> >     and should continue to work until it occurs to the glibc boys to break
> >     localtime() as well.  By then I hope we'll have our own timezone code...
>
> I think this closes bug #630 as well (inserting data at 2am on a
> timzone shit).  -sc
>
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> Sean Chittenden
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