On Friday 18 December 2015 00:02:17 David Howells wrote: > ISO 8601 format dates permit two different encodings of midnight - 00:00:00 > and 24:00:00 - the first is midnight today and the second is midnight > tomorrow and is exactly equivalent to the first with tomorrow's date. > > Note that the implementation of mktime64() doesn't actually need to be > changed to handle this - the multiplication by 3600 of the hour will take > care of it automatically. However, we should document that this handling > is done in mktime64() and is thus in a common place in the kernel. > > This handling is required for X.509 certificate parsing which can be given > ISO 8601 dates. > > Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@xxxxxxxxxx> > cc: John Stultz <john.stultz@xxxxxxxxxx> > cc: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@xxxxxxxx> > cc: stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > Acked-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@xxxxxxxx> -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe stable" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html