Re: Y2K38 bug (January 19, 2038)

Christian Weisgerber <naddy@mips.inka.de> writes:

On 2024-03-12, Geoff Clare <geoff@clare.See-My-Signature.invalid> wrote:

Also, having signed time_t doesn't necessarily mean that dates before
Jan 1970 are supported.

>
mktime(3) is documented to return (time_t)-1 in case of error, which
bodes ill for Dec 31, 1969, 23:59:59 UTC.

It can still return a correct value of -1.  It does make it difficult
for the caller to determine whether a -1 return value denotes an error
or not.

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