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From: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] t4212: handle systems with post-apocalyptic gmtime
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On Fri, Mar 28, 2014 at 12:30:02PM -0700, Junio C Hamano wrote:

> Let's just deal with a simple known cases (like FreeBSD) in the real
> code that everybody exercises at runtime, and have the new test only
> check we do not segfault on a value we used to segfault upon seeing.

OK. Here it is, with the other option as an "alt" patch for reference.

  [1/2]: date: recognize bogus FreeBSD gmtime output
  [2/2]: t4212: loosen far-in-future test for AIX
  [2alt/2]: work around unreliable gmtime errors on AIX

-Peff