[tz] So, about those LMT offsets

Guy Harris gharris at sonic.net
Mon May 24 05:54:38 UTC 2021


On May 23, 2021, at 7:59 PM, Paul Eggert via tz <tz at iana.org> wrote:

> However, it's common for clients to assume that all timestamps can be converted - something that is true on older or smaller POSIX hosts with 32-bit time_t and 32-bit int

...and much of that client code may never be ported to Windows, so the problems with that assumption on Windows won't show up and force the code to stop making that assumption.


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