Re: PHP 4.0 Bug #8828 Updated: mktime using mday<=0
| From: | Sascha Schumann | Date: | Wed, 14 Mar 2001 19:39:34 +0000 |
| Subject: | Re: PHP 4.0 Bug #8828 Updated: mktime using mday<=0 | ||
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Hi,
> Either way though, you are saying that this has not been
> excepted into the final C99?
Correct. A bit of googling brought up this page where Paul
Eggert documents why the proposal is broken.
http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~mgk25/c-time/comment-eggert.html
> So should we depend on this being a portable standard yet? I
> have used the mday=0 on Solaris, and Linux and have seen it in
> the IRIX manpages
It is not portable as the Mac OS X case shows. It would be
hard to convince a vendor to implement a certain feature, if
even the proposal for that feature was rejected by the
responsible language committee.
- Sascha Experience IRCG
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