[17026] in Kerberos_V5_Development
Re: prevalence of "right" time zones without timegm()?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Henry B. Hotz)
Tue Jul 12 17:07:23 2011
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On Jul 5, 2011, at 4:20 PM, krbdev-request@mit.edu wrote:
> Date: Tue, 05 Jul 2011 15:18:59 -0400
> From: Tom Yu <tlyu@MIT.EDU>
> Subject: prevalence of "right" time zones without timegm()?
> To: krbdev@MIT.EDU
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> Does anyone configure a "right" (leap-second-aware) time zone on a
> system that lacks timegm()? (timegm() is the non-standard inverse
> function of gmtime().) I'm trying to address the problem where
> conversion to formatted ASN.1 GeneralizedTime is sometimes
> non-invertible, causing failures that are difficult to debug.
>
> I propose that we implement krb5int_gmt_mktime() using timegm() on
> systems that have it, using our existing custom implementation if
> timegm() doesn't exist.
How does it compare to mktime()/tzset() with the right TZ?
Or is this what you're putting in your custom krb5int_gmt_mktime()?
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