Hello Vincent, On 10/25/2016 06:58 AM, Vincent Lefevre wrote: > In the timegm(3) man page, the behavior is not described in case of > error, i.e. if the result is not representable in a time_t (e.g., > with a huge year). > > The glibc manual says: > > 'timegm' is functionally identical to 'mktime' except it always > takes the input values to be Coordinated Universal Time (UTC) > regardless of any local time zone setting. > > So, I assume that (time_t) -1 is returned in such a case, just like > mktime. Yes. > The man page could add a sentence like the glibc manual one, or > explicitly say what happens in case of error like in the mktime(3) > man page. I've added such a sentence. (Changes are pushed to Git.) Thanks for the report! Cheers, Michael > This is mainly for the timegm() function. For the timelocal() function, > the man page already says: > > The timelocal() function is equivalent to the POSIX standard > function mktime(3). [...] > -- Michael Kerrisk Linux man-pages maintainer; http://www.kernel.org/doc/man-pages/ Linux/UNIX System Programming Training: http://man7.org/training/ -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-man" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
