Commit 8a96aec5 authored by Daniel Stenberg's avatar Daniel Stenberg
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mktime() returns a time_t. time_t is often 32 bits, even on many architectures 

that feature 64 bit 'long'.

Some systems have 64 bit time_t and deal with years beyond 2038. However, even
some of the systems with 64 bit time_t returns -1 for dates beyond 03:14:07
UTC, January 19, 2038. (Such as AIX 5100-06)
parent 5cd9f571

docs/libcurl/curl_getdate.3

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@@ -85,7 +85,12 @@ This function returns -1 when it fails to parse the date string. Otherwise it 
returns the number of seconds as described.



If the year is larger than 2037 on systems with 32 bit time_t, this function

will return 0x7fffffff (since that is the largest possible 31 bit number).

will return 0x7fffffff (since that is the largest possible signed 32 bit

number).



Having a 64 bit time_t is not a guarantee that dates beyond 03:14:07 UTC,

January 19, 2038 will work fine. On systems with a 64 bit time_t but with a

crippled mktime(), \fIcurl_getdate\fP will return -1 in this case.

.SH REWRITE

The former version of this function was built with yacc and was not only very

large, it was also never quite understood and it wasn't possible to build with

lib/parsedate.c

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@@ -369,10 +369,17 @@ static time_t Curl_parsedate(const char *date) 
  tm.tm_yday = 0;

  tm.tm_isdst = 0;



  /* mktime() returns a time_t. time_t is often 32 bits, even on many

     architectures that feature 64 bit 'long'.



     Some systems have 64 bit time_t and deal with years beyond 2038. However,

     even some of the systems with 64 bit time_t returns -1 for dates beyond

     03:14:07 UTC, January 19, 2038. (Such as AIX 5100-06)

  */

  t = mktime(&tm);



  /* time zone adjust */

  {

  if(-1 != t) {

    struct tm *gmt;

    long delta;

    time_t t2;