Re: mktime(3) return value

[Paul Goyette <paul%whooppee.com@localhost>]

On Thu, 6 Jan 2011, Matthias Drochner wrote:

> > the rather absurd value of tms.tm_year
>
> It is not absurd. It is a -1, counting from 1900, so it
> means 1899 -- 71 years before the Unix epoch.
> Your program gives -2240614800 for me. Just a check:
> $ bc -l
> 2240614800/60/60/24/365.2425
> 71.00225649169159302837
>
> So, at least on -current, with 64-bit time_t, it looks OK.
> With 32-bit time_t, I'd expect an error.

Ah, OK.

I will make sure to test this on a 32-bit system.


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