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authorDaniel Stenberg <daniel@haxx.se>2018-01-18 20:24:05 +0100
committerDaniel Stenberg <daniel@haxx.se>2018-01-25 22:20:52 +0100
commit1c39128d974666107fc6d9ea15f294036851f224 (patch)
treec3a81a69310c7561f6bec4336abc80d6afa6d3ca /docs/libcurl
parent1433e4645b51a4ccb0b5e23a889ac9bd6093e3e2 (diff)
parsedate: fix date parsing for systems with 32 bit long
Make curl_getdate() handle dates before 1970 as well (returning negative values). Make test 517 test dates for 64 bit time_t. This fixes bug (3) mentioned in #2238 Closes #2250
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-rw-r--r--docs/libcurl/curl_getdate.316
1 files changed, 9 insertions, 7 deletions
diff --git a/docs/libcurl/curl_getdate.3 b/docs/libcurl/curl_getdate.3
index d09980d09..71479d20e 100644
--- a/docs/libcurl/curl_getdate.3
+++ b/docs/libcurl/curl_getdate.3
@@ -5,7 +5,7 @@
.\" * | (__| |_| | _ <| |___
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.\" *
-.\" * Copyright (C) 1998 - 2015, Daniel Stenberg, <daniel@haxx.se>, et al.
+.\" * Copyright (C) 1998 - 2018, Daniel Stenberg, <daniel@haxx.se>, et al.
.\" *
.\" * This software is licensed as described in the file COPYING, which
.\" * you should have received as part of this distribution. The terms
@@ -96,13 +96,15 @@ only ones RFC 7231 says HTTP applications may use.
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 signed 32 bit
-number).
+On systems with a signed 32 bit time_t: if the year is larger than 2037 or
+less than 1903, this function will return -1.
-Having a 64 bit time_t is not a guarantee that dates beyond 03:14:07 UTC,
-January 19, 2038 will work fine. On systems with a 64 bit time_t but with a
-crippled mktime(), \fIcurl_getdate(3)\fP will return -1 in this case.
+On systems with an unsigned 32 bit time_t: if the year is larger than 2106 or
+less than 1970, this function will return -1.
+
+On systems with 64 bit time_t: if the year is less than 1583, this function
+will return -1. (The Gregorian calendar was first introduced 1582 so no "real"
+dates in this way of doing dates existed before then.)
.SH "SEE ALSO"
.BR curl_easy_escape "(3), " curl_easy_unescape "(3), "
.BR CURLOPT_TIMECONDITION "(3), " CURLOPT_TIMEVALUE "(3) "