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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 @@ .\" * | (__| |_| | _ <| |___ .\" * \___|\___/|_| \_\_____| .\" * -.\" * 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) " |