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authorDaniel Stenberg <daniel@haxx.se>2004-11-11 09:26:09 +0000
committerDaniel Stenberg <daniel@haxx.se>2004-11-11 09:26:09 +0000
commitcd73a733c78b7ab7b4e3ccaca9350bbcce124142 (patch)
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parent8ef8e949bd07a72918565f4482f8250a55a2f2dc (diff)
dates from 2038 or later now return 0x7fffffff when 32 bit time_t is used
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@@ -83,6 +83,9 @@ only ones RFC2616 says HTTP applications may use.
.SH RETURN VALUE
This function returns -1 when it fails to parse the date string. Otherwise it
returns the number of seconds as described.
+
+If the year is larger than 2037 on systems with 32 bit time_t, this function
+will return 0x7fffffff (since that is the largest possible 31 bit number).
.SH REWRITE
The former version of this function was built with yacc and was not only very
large, it was also never quite understood and it wasn't possible to build with