Re: [htdig3-dev] mytimegm() not Y2K compliant!


Geoff Hutchison (ghutchis@wso.williams.edu)
Fri, 26 Feb 1999 19:00:59 -0500


>Sheesh! Even worse, configure doesn't seem to test for timegm(), so

Not true.

checking for localtime_r... (cached) yes
checking for timegm... (cached) yes
checking whether we need gethostname() prototype?... no

Of course, I just checked my include file and it's not setting it. <omitted
words> Grr. I'll figure out what's going wrong...

>everybody's using the buggy mytimegm() function. So in 12 months and 3
>days, everybody's htdig will start storing the wrong modification date
>for newly updated documents, unless they install this patch:

So that's a good reason to get out a new version in the meantime, huh? :-)

-Geoff

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