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author | Kevin B Kenny <kennykb@acm.org> | 2004-08-18 22:33:54 (GMT) |
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committer | Kevin B Kenny <kennykb@acm.org> | 2004-08-18 22:33:54 (GMT) |
commit | 84a7b4629ead0c2767254000c8bbe63c25313474 (patch) | |
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added note about times out of Posix range
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@@ -52,6 +52,12 @@ Tcl_MakeSafe needs to be aware that [clock] may need special handling. (It appears unlikely that such code actually exists.) + One incompatibility of note is that if the time zone cannot + be determined from the TZ, TCL_TZ environment variables, or + from the Windows control panel, so that the C library must be + used for date and time conversions, then times outside the + range of time_t will fail; they used to return bad data silently. + Many thanks to all the many people who assisted with testing, debugging, criticism of the specification, and localisation. Deserving of particular mention are Joe English, Clif Flynt, Donal |