Date: Wed, 13 Oct 1999 12:02:32 +0200 (IST)
From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il>
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Subject: Re: mktime implememtation problem
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On Tue, 12 Oct 1999, Martin Ambuhl 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.

Care to provide a simple example?  FWIW, the sources don't show
tm_wday or tm_yday being referenced at all on the right-hand side of
any assignment, and I cannot do much more without a test case.