From: "Alex Vinokur" Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.djgpp Subject: Re: mktime() for 1969 & 2106 Date: Tue, 21 May 2002 14:21:18 +0200 Organization: Scopus Lines: 109 Message-ID: References: NNTP-Posting-Host: gateway.scopus.net (62.90.123.5) X-Trace: fu-berlin.de 1021979995 26288485 62.90.123.5 (16 [79865]) X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Newsreader: Microsoft Outlook Express 6.00.2600.0000 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2600.0000 To: djgpp AT delorie DOT com DJ-Gateway: from newsgroup comp.os.msdos.djgpp Reply-To: djgpp AT delorie DOT com "Eli Zaretskii" wrote in message news:Pine DOT SUN DOT 3 DOT 91 DOT 1020521130646 DOT 7489B-100000 AT is... | | On Tue, 21 May 2002, Alex Vinokur wrote: | | > It seems that not 'all results for 1969 and 2106' are valid. | | That's because your time zone is not GMT0, but something else. The range | of times that mktime can represent is defined in the GMT0 zone (a.k.a. | UTC time); for all other zones, mktime does the appropriate correction. | That's why the first valid time for your machine is in 1969, not January | 1, 1970. | | For the record: what is your timezone, as set on your DJGPP machine? zoneinfo was missing on my DJGPP machine. | The headers of your message seem to indicate it's +0400, is that what you | have on the DJGPP machine? | | > Is something wrong? | | No. You just need to make sure your TZ environment variable is set to | your time zone. See section 22.20 of the DJGPP FAQ list for more | details. | | Also make sure you have the latest upload of djtzn203.zip from SimTel: | the initial upload had a bug in the generated timezone files. | Thanks. I download djtzn203.zip from SimTel (by the way, this file name is missing in list of zip files). Now my DJGPP machine contains zoneinfo with its subdirectories and files. TZ=c:/djgpp/zoneinfo/israel Here are a new run log file. ------ BEGIN ------ DATA-TIME 1969:12:31::00:00:57 ---> mktime() can't return required time DATA-TIME 1969:12:31::00:00:58 ---> mktime() can't return required time DATA-TIME 1969:12:31::00:00:59 ---> mktime() can't return required time DATA-TIME 1969:12:31::00:01:00 ---> mktime() can't return required time DATA-TIME 1969:12:31::00:01:01 ---> mktime() can't return required time DATA-TIME 1969:12:31::00:01:02 ---> mktime() can't return required time DATA-TIME 1969:12:31::00:59:57 ---> mktime() can't return required time DATA-TIME 1969:12:31::00:59:58 ---> mktime() can't return required time DATA-TIME 1969:12:31::00:59:59 ---> mktime() can't return required time DATA-TIME 1969:12:31::01:00:00 ---> mktime() can't return required time DATA-TIME 1969:12:31::01:00:01 ---> mktime() can't return required time DATA-TIME 1969:12:31::01:00:02 ---> mktime() can't return required time DATA-TIME 1969:12:31::01:00:57 ---> mktime() can't return required time DATA-TIME 1969:12:31::01:00:58 ---> mktime() can't return required time DATA-TIME 1969:12:31::01:00:59 ---> mktime() can't return required time DATA-TIME 1969:12:31::01:01:00 ---> mktime() can't return required time DATA-TIME 1969:12:31::01:01:01 ---> mktime() can't return required time DATA-TIME 1969:12:31::01:01:02 ---> mktime() can't return required time DATA-TIME 1969:12:31::23:00:57 ---> mktime() can't return required time DATA-TIME 1969:12:31::23:00:58 ---> mktime() can't return required time DATA-TIME 1969:12:31::23:00:59 ---> mktime() can't return required time DATA-TIME 1969:12:31::23:01:00 ---> mktime() can't return required time DATA-TIME 1969:12:31::23:01:01 ---> mktime() can't return required time DATA-TIME 1969:12:31::23:01:02 ---> mktime() can't return required time DATA-TIME 1969:12:31::23:59:57 ---> mktime() can't return required time DATA-TIME 1969:12:31::23:59:58 ---> mktime() can't return required time DATA-TIME 1969:12:31::23:59:59 ---> mktime() can't return required time DATA-TIME 1970:01:01::00:00:00 ---> 004294960096 DATA-TIME 1970:01:01::00:00:01 ---> 004294960097 DATA-TIME 1970:01:01::00:00:02 ---> 004294960098 DATA-TIME 2106:02:07::06:28:12 ---> 004294960092 DATA-TIME 2106:02:07::06:28:13 ---> 004294960093 DATA-TIME 2106:02:07::06:28:14 ---> 004294960094 DATA-TIME 2106:02:07::06:28:15 ---> 004294960095 DATA-TIME 2106:02:07::06:28:16 ---> 004294960096 DATA-TIME 2106:02:07::06:28:17 ---> 004294960097 DATA-TIME 2106:02:07::06:28:18 ---> 004294960098 DATA-TIME 2106:02:07::06:28:57 ---> 004294960137 DATA-TIME 2106:02:07::06:28:58 ---> 004294960138 DATA-TIME 2106:02:07::06:28:59 ---> 004294960139 DATA-TIME 2106:02:07::06:29:00 ---> 004294960140 DATA-TIME 2106:02:07::06:29:01 ---> 004294960141 DATA-TIME 2106:02:07::06:29:02 ---> 004294960142 ------ END -------- It seems that new log file is better than old one. However, what happened to 1970 ? -- ==================== Alex Vinokur http://up.to/alexvn http://go.to/alexv_math mailto:alexvn AT bigfoot DOT com mailto:alexvn AT go DOT to ====================