Date: Thu, 15 Mar 2001 11:02:14 +0200 (IST)
From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il>
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Subject: Re: mktime(01/01/70;00:00:XX)
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On 14 Mar 2001, Richard Sanders wrote:

> mktime yeils 0 when the time and date is set to 00:00hrs Jan 1st
> 1980, a lesser date has to produve an error.

This is simply wrong.  The cutoff is 1970, not 1980.