Date: Wed, 13 Oct 1999 15:07:59 +0200 (IST)
From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il>
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To: Martin Stromberg <eplmst AT lu DOT erisoft DOT se>
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Subject: Re: mktime implememtation problem
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On 13 Oct 1999, Martin Stromberg wrote:

> Martin Ambuhl (mambuhl AT earthlink DOT net) wrote:
> : The standard requires of mktime that "the original values of tm_wday and
> : rm_yday components of the structure are ignored."  I have discovered
> : that if I do not set these components to possibly legal values, mktime
> : returns (time_t)-1, meaning that it fails.  Will this be corrected, or
> : do I just live with it?
> 
> Which standard?

The ANSI C Standard (a.k.a. C89).