[tz] [PROPOSED] GNOME glib bug fix installed
Joseph Myers
jsm at polyomino.org.uk
Mon Jun 11 21:10:35 UTC 2018
On Mon, 11 Jun 2018, Paul Eggert wrote:
> The bug fix was merged into glib master today. Since it’s four
> years after the fix was proposed (!), push back an estimate of
> when we can remove the workaround. Also, adjust to GNOME bug
> renumbering.
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).
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Joseph S. Myers
jsm at polyomino.org.uk
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