Bug#36775: incompatible mktime() behavior under Debian Linux 2.2.1 (formerly used 2.033)

[wiener@rap.ucar.EDU (Gerry Wiener)]

If I want to follow up further with this issue, should I email the
libc6 developers at GNU?  Note that the libc6 implementation of
mktime() still adjusts the tm_isdst field in the inputted structure.
So I'm wondering why the time adjustment is not being performed as was
done in libc5 (the adjustment can be made using tm_gmtoff for
example).

Thanks,

--Gerry


>>>>> " " == Zack Weinberg <zack@rabi.columbia.edu> writes:

     > On Tue, 27 Apr 1999 09:45:25 -0600 (MDT), Gerry Wiener wrote:
    >> Package: libc6 Version: 2.0.7.19981211
    >> 
    >> The version of mktime() in Debian 2.2.1 has incompatible
    >> behavior from that of Debian 2.0.33.  Note that 2.2.1 uses
    >> /lib/libc-2.0.7.so.

     > I don't recognize these version numbers.  They look like kernel
     > versions, but the kernel has nothing to do with the
     > implementation of time zones.  Are you possibly comparing
     > Debian 1.3 (which shipped kernel 2.0.33 IIRC) with Debian 2.0?
     > If so, the relevant difference is that 1.3 came with a
     > completely different C library: libc5, rev 5.4.23 IIRC.  libc6
     > does not implement a lot of obsolete stuff relating to time
     > zones and I think the feature you're trying to use is one of
     > them.

     > zw