Strange output from zdump for 2038

[Dave Rolsky]

On Sat, 19 Jul 2003, Dave Rolsky wrote:

> autarch at houseabsolute:~/DateTime/modules/DateTime-TimeZone$ zdump -v Asia/Aqtau | grep 2038
>
> Asia/Aqtau  Mon Jan 18 03:14:07 2038 UTC = Mon Jan 18 07:14:07 2038 AQTT isdst=0 gmtoff=14400
> Asia/Aqtau  Tue Jan 19 03:14:07 2038 UTC = Tue Jan 19 07:14:07 2038 AQTT isdst=0 gmtoff=14400
>
> Surely that's not right ;)  I'd suggest that it's better to simply not
> output anything rather than output bad data.  Obviously this is related to
> the 32-bit-ness of time_t, and is probably really a zic problem.

The same problem occurs at the other end of integer:

Africa/Abidjan  Fri Dec 13 20:45:52 1901 UTC = Fri Dec 13 20:29:44 1901 GMT isdst=0 gmtoff=-968
Africa/Abidjan  Sat Dec 14 20:45:52 1901 UTC = Sat Dec 14 20:29:44 1901 GMT isdst=0 gmtoff=-968


-dave

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