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Re: Old timestamps in the future?


From: Edward Welbourne
Subject: Re: Old timestamps in the future?
Date: Fri, 9 Dec 2022 15:39:55 +0000

Paul Smith (9 December 2022 16:22) wrote:
> That's probably why it works on my system even though I'm at UTC-0500.

oh, and: that means you're west of Greenwich, so the epoch is your local
time 1969-12-31 19:00, so your 1970-01-01 00:00 is firmly in positive
time_t.  So you had no chance of reproducing the issue; it would only
show for someone on MS (in a zone that believes it's) east of Greenwich.

(For bonus amusement, Europe/Madrid is CET so does believe it's east of
Greenwich, even though Madrid is west of Greenwich.)

        Eddy.



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