gnupg 2.0.5: make check fails for x86_64

Alon Bar-Lev alon.barlev at gmail.com
Mon Jul 9 19:49:53 CEST 2007


On 7/9/07, Werner Koch <wk at gnupg.org> wrote:
> On Sat,  7 Jul 2007 18:14, alon.barlev at gmail.com said:
>
> > Werner, I think there is a further problem with timezone settings.
>
> You mean the leap seconds calculations when using TAI as your timezone?
> (Is that valid at all?).  I have not checked POSIX what it tells about
> this but I recall that there was some disagreement on the leapseconds
> topic a couple of years ago.
>
> One of the problems is that time_t was never meant to describe arbitrary
> dates and in particular not those in the future.  This is why gpgsm uses
> a string to represent times.

I am fine with any solution which makes the tests succeed... :)
There are advantages for each approach...
But if a user prefer to use a valid timezone as TAI timezone you
should support this.

Alon.



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