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-rw-r--r--CHANGES7
-rw-r--r--RELEASE-NOTES3
-rw-r--r--lib/parsedate.c13
3 files changed, 21 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/CHANGES b/CHANGES
index e843b4467..434266ca6 100644
--- a/CHANGES
+++ b/CHANGES
@@ -7,6 +7,13 @@
Changelog
+Daniel (5 July 2005)
+- Gisle Vanem came up with a nice little work-around for bug #1230118. It
+ seems the Windows (MSVC) libc time functions may return data one hour off if
+ TZ is not set and automatic DST adjustment is enabled. This made
+ curl_getdate() return wrong value, and it also concerned internal cookie
+ expirations etc.
+
Daniel (4 July 2005)
- Andrew Bushnell provided enough info for me to tell that we badly needed to
fix the CONNECT authentication code with multi-pass auth methods (such as
diff --git a/RELEASE-NOTES b/RELEASE-NOTES
index fad14e48f..45406badd 100644
--- a/RELEASE-NOTES
+++ b/RELEASE-NOTES
@@ -16,6 +16,7 @@ This release includes the following changes:
This release includes the following bugfixes:
+ o corrected date parsing on Windows with auto-DST-adjust enabled
o treats CONNECT 407 responses with bodies better during Digest/NTLM auth
o improved strerror_r() API guessing when cross-compiling
o debug builds work on Tru64
@@ -40,6 +41,6 @@ This release would not have looked like this without help, code, reports and
advice from friends like these:
John McGowan, Georg Wicherski, Andres Garcia, Eric Cooper, Todd Kulesza,
- Tupone Alfredo, Gisle Vanem, David Shaw, Andrew Bushnell
+ Tupone Alfredo, Gisle Vanem, David Shaw, Andrew Bushnell, Dan Fandrich
Thanks! (and sorry if I forgot to mention someone)
diff --git a/lib/parsedate.c b/lib/parsedate.c
index 52529848d..ae9e232a9 100644
--- a/lib/parsedate.c
+++ b/lib/parsedate.c
@@ -236,9 +236,20 @@ static time_t Curl_parsedate(const char *date)
struct tm tm;
enum assume dignext = DATE_MDAY;
const char *indate = date; /* save the original pointer */
-
int part = 0; /* max 6 parts */
+#ifdef WIN32
+ /*
+ * On Windows, we need an odd work-around for the case when no TZ variable
+ * is set. If it isn't set and "automatic DST adjustment" is enabled, the
+ * time functions below will return values one hour off! As reported and
+ * investigated in bug report #1230118.
+ */
+ const char *env = getenv("TZ");
+ if(!env)
+ putenv("TZ=GMT");
+#endif
+
while(*date && (part < 6)) {
bool found=FALSE;