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| author | Daniel Stenberg <daniel@haxx.se> | 2005-03-08 16:31:56 +0000 |
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| committer | Daniel Stenberg <daniel@haxx.se> | 2005-03-08 16:31:56 +0000 |
| commit | 8a96aec5673b9ba4787cef1319c105facbe82a40 (patch) | |
| tree | 114f0b6b1a34f8b77457e0d88b0b76ace343f156 /docs/libcurl | |
| parent | 5cd9f57137fc185786f10b16ab73743386b95bd3 (diff) | |
mktime() returns a time_t. time_t is often 32 bits, even on many architectures
that feature 64 bit 'long'.
Some systems have 64 bit time_t and deal with years beyond 2038. However, even
some of the systems with 64 bit time_t returns -1 for dates beyond 03:14:07
UTC, January 19, 2038. (Such as AIX 5100-06)
Diffstat (limited to 'docs/libcurl')
| -rw-r--r-- | docs/libcurl/curl_getdate.3 | 7 |
1 files changed, 6 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/docs/libcurl/curl_getdate.3 b/docs/libcurl/curl_getdate.3 index 0ba4dfbd7..75fd0c039 100644 --- a/docs/libcurl/curl_getdate.3 +++ b/docs/libcurl/curl_getdate.3 @@ -85,7 +85,12 @@ 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). +will return 0x7fffffff (since that is the largest possible signed 32 bit +number). + +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\fP will return -1 in this case. .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 |