[tz] Fiji change exposed Y2038 bug in localtime.c
Paul Eggert
eggert at cs.ucla.edu
Thu Oct 1 09:59:11 UTC 2015
Andreas Schwab wrote:
> s/2018/2038/
Thanks, I'll put the corrected year into NEWS with the attached patch (the NEWS
item was missing so a fix would be needed anyway). This documentation patch is
too late for 2015g, but should appear in the release after that.
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From: Paul Eggert <eggert at cs.ucla.edu>
Date: Thu, 1 Oct 2015 02:56:33 -0700
Subject: [PATCH] * NEWS: Mention last-minute localtime fix for Fiji.
---
NEWS | 3 +++
1 file changed, 3 insertions(+)
diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS
index 00d07cb..9a2dfd6 100644
--- a/NEWS
+++ b/NEWS
@@ -26,6 +26,9 @@ Release 2015g - 2015-10-01 00:39:51 -0700
localtime no longer mishandles America/Anchorage after 2037.
(Thanks to Bradley White for reporting the bug.)
+ On hosts with signed 32-bit time_t, localtime no longer mishandles
+ Pacific/Fiji after 2038-01-16 14:00 UTC.
+
The localtime module allows the variables 'timezone', 'daylight',
and 'altzone' to be in common storage shared with other modules,
and declares them in case the system <time.h> does not.
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