From: Charles Bailey <cbailey32@bloomberg.net>
To: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Cc: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>, git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] t4212: handle systems with post-apocalyptic gmtime
Date: Wed, 26 Mar 2014 20:36:18 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20140326203618.GA6991@hashpling.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20140326194043.GB14105@sigill.intra.peff.net>
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.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2014-03-26 20:36 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 48+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2014-02-24 7:33 [PATCH 0/5] handle bogus commit dates Jeff King
2014-02-24 7:36 ` [PATCH 1/5] t4212: test bogus timestamps with git-log Jeff King
2014-02-24 7:39 ` [PATCH 2/5] fsck: report integer overflow in author timestamps Jeff King
2014-02-24 7:39 ` [PATCH 3/5] date: check date overflow against time_t Jeff King
2014-02-24 7:46 ` [PATCH 4/5] log: handle integer overflow in timestamps Jeff King
2014-02-24 19:50 ` Junio C Hamano
2014-02-24 19:58 ` Jeff King
2014-02-24 20:21 ` Junio C Hamano
2014-02-24 20:37 ` Jeff King
2014-02-24 21:01 ` Junio C Hamano
2014-02-24 7:49 ` [PATCH 5/5] log: do not segfault on gmtime errors Jeff King
2014-03-22 9:32 ` René Scharfe
2014-03-24 21:33 ` Jeff King
2014-03-24 22:03 ` René Scharfe
2014-03-24 22:11 ` Jeff King
2014-03-26 11:05 ` Charles Bailey
2014-03-26 18:21 ` Jeff King
2014-03-26 18:51 ` [PATCH] t4212: handle systems with post-apocalyptic gmtime Jeff King
2014-03-26 19:18 ` Junio C Hamano
2014-03-26 19:25 ` Jeff King
2014-03-26 19:33 ` Jeff King
2014-03-26 19:40 ` Jeff King
2014-03-26 20:36 ` Charles Bailey [this message]
2014-03-26 20:38 ` Jeff King
2014-03-26 20:41 ` Charles Bailey
2014-03-26 21:22 ` Charles Bailey
2014-03-26 21:57 ` Jeff King
2014-03-26 22:46 ` Charles Bailey
2014-03-27 22:48 ` Jeff King
2014-03-28 16:41 ` Junio C Hamano
2014-03-28 18:47 ` Jeff King
2014-03-28 19:02 ` Junio C Hamano
2014-03-28 19:05 ` Jeff King
2014-03-28 19:30 ` Junio C Hamano
2014-04-01 7:38 ` Jeff King
2014-04-01 7:42 ` [PATCH 1/2] date: recognize bogus FreeBSD gmtime output Jeff King
2014-04-01 17:42 ` René Scharfe
2014-04-01 19:08 ` Junio C Hamano
2014-04-01 21:17 ` René Scharfe
2014-04-01 21:28 ` Jeff King
2014-04-01 7:43 ` [PATCH 2/2] t4212: loosen far-in-future test for AIX Jeff King
2014-04-01 7:45 ` [PATCH 2alt/2] work around unreliable gmtime errors on AIX Jeff King
2014-04-01 19:07 ` [PATCH] t4212: handle systems with post-apocalyptic gmtime Junio C Hamano
2014-04-01 19:46 ` Jeff King
2014-03-26 18:58 ` [PATCH 5/5] log: do not segfault on gmtime errors Junio C Hamano
2014-03-26 19:01 ` Jeff King
2014-03-26 21:01 ` Junio C Hamano
2014-03-26 21:09 ` Jeff King
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