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| -rw-r--r-- | CHANGES | 7 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | RELEASE-NOTES | 3 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | lib/parsedate.c | 13 |
3 files changed, 21 insertions, 2 deletions
@@ -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; |