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-rw-r--r--lib/parsedate.c8
1 files changed, 6 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/lib/parsedate.c b/lib/parsedate.c
index d1d1fdc82..d30286ef5 100644
--- a/lib/parsedate.c
+++ b/lib/parsedate.c
@@ -222,10 +222,14 @@ enum assume {
DATE_TIME
};
-/* struct tm to time since epoch in GMT time zone */
+/* struct tm to time since epoch in GMT time zone.
+ * This is similar to the standard mktime function but for GMT only, and
+ * doesn't suffer from the various bugs and portability problems that
+ * some systems' implementations have.
+ */
static time_t my_timegm(struct tm * tm)
{
- int month_days_cumulative [12] =
+ static const int month_days_cumulative [12] =
{ 0, 31, 59, 90, 120, 151, 181, 212, 243, 273, 304, 334 };
int month, year, leap_days;