[tz] [PROPOSED] GNOME glib bug fix installed

Paul Eggert eggert at cs.ucla.edu
Wed Jun 13 10:02:08 UTC 2018


Joseph Myers wrote:
> It's not just glib possibly affected by overflows with such timestamps;
> cf. glibc bug 19738, for example (fixed for 32-bit time_t by always using
> 64-bit times internally for tz file processing, probably not fixed for
> 64-bit with such extreme times).

Thanks for catching that. The attached proposed patch should fix that.

Come to think of it, we should be able to avoid this Big Bang stuff entirely now 
that type 0 is the default. I plan to follow up shortly with a proposed patch 
along those lines.
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