Re: Redhat 7.3 time manipulation bug

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> Our implementation is broken, then.  Thomas, is this fixable for a 7.2.x
> release, or something for 7.3?

"Our implementation is broken, then" is really not a conclusion to be
reached. The de facto behavior of mktime() on all world-class
implementations is to support pre-1970 times. This has been true forever
afaik, certainly far longer than PostgreSQL (or Postgres) has been in
existance.

Any standard which chooses to ignore pre-1970 dates is fundamentally
broken imho, and I'm really ticked off that the glibc folks have so
glibly introduced a change of this nature and magnitude without further
discussion.
                        - Thomas