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| -rw-r--r-- | winsup/cygwin/ChangeLog | 9 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | winsup/cygwin/localtime.cc | 6 |
2 files changed, 10 insertions, 5 deletions
diff --git a/winsup/cygwin/ChangeLog b/winsup/cygwin/ChangeLog index 1723b188c..cc19f0ca8 100644 --- a/winsup/cygwin/ChangeLog +++ b/winsup/cygwin/ChangeLog @@ -1,7 +1,12 @@ 2009-06-12 Corinna Vinschen <corinna@vinschen.de> - * localtime.cc (time2): Add workaround for spring gap problem. Add - explaining comment. + * localtime.cc (time2): Change "spring gap" to "spring forward gap" + in comment. + +2009-06-12 Corinna Vinschen <corinna@vinschen.de> + + * localtime.cc (time2): Add workaround for spring forward gap problem. + Add explaining comment. 2009-06-12 Corinna Vinschen <corinna@vinschen.de> diff --git a/winsup/cygwin/localtime.cc b/winsup/cygwin/localtime.cc index aa0f735ee..c65596124 100644 --- a/winsup/cygwin/localtime.cc +++ b/winsup/cygwin/localtime.cc @@ -1994,13 +1994,13 @@ time2(struct tm *tmp, void (*funcp) P((const time_t*, long, struct tm*)), t = time2sub(tmp, funcp, offset, okayp, true); if (*okayp) return t; - /* Workaround for the spring gap problem which results in the - autoconf mktime usability test failing. + /* Workaround for the spring forward gap problem which results in + the autoconf mktime usability test failing. What we do here is this: The gap has 3600 seconds. If we subtract 3600 from the tm_sec value and get a valid result, then we can simply add 3600 to the return value and are done. If the result is still not valid, the problem is not the - spring gap and we can give up. */ + spring forward gap and we can give up. */ struct tm tmp2 = *tmp; tmp2.tm_sec -= 3600; t = time2sub(&tmp2, funcp, offset, okayp, true); |