Re: [PATCH] t4212: handle systems with post-apocalyptic gmtime

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On Wed, Mar 26, 2014 at 03:40:43PM -0400, Jeff King wrote:
> On Wed, Mar 26, 2014 at 03:33:59PM -0400, Jeff King wrote:
> 
> > That being said, is the AIX value actually right? I did not look closely
> > at first, but just assumed that it was vaguely right. But:
> > 
> >   999999999999999999 / (86400 * 365)
> > 
> > is something like 31 billion years in the future, not 160 million.
> > A real date calculation will have a few tweaks (leap years, etc), but
> > that is orders of magnitude off.
> 
> Assuming my math is right, then here is the most sensible patch, IMHO.
> 

Perhaps hold onto this one for a little while longer. Splitting things
out from the test is giving me some inconsistent results, there may be
something else going wrong in our environment here.

Charles.
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