Re: AW: AW: AW: AW: AW: AW: Re: tinterval - operator proble ms o n AI X

Zeugswetter Andreas SB writes:

> We do not need any execution time checks for this at all. The objective is
> to determine whether mktime works for any results that would be negative.
> On AIX and IRIX all calls to mktime for dates before 1970 lead to a result of
> -1, and the configure test is supposed to give a define for exactly that behavior.

Okay, so you call mktime with a pre-1970 date once when the system starts
up or when the particular function is first used and then save the result
in a static variable.

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Peter Eisentraut      peter_e@gmx.net       http://yi.org/peter-e/