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local_tzoffset: detect errors from tm_to_time_t
authorJeff King <peff@peff.net>
Mon, 20 Jun 2016 21:14:14 +0000 (17:14 -0400)
committerJunio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Mon, 20 Jun 2016 22:08:07 +0000 (15:08 -0700)
commitbab748371a104c58058c0eff9f4073b710ce0355
treed4e86d14b8944617db1a2253eaefd6b7ab40bba5
parent36d6792157cc064607147b942c80bc3716dd339b
local_tzoffset: detect errors from tm_to_time_t

When we want to know the local timezone offset at a given
timestamp, we compute it by asking for localtime() at the
given time, and comparing the offset to GMT at that time.
However, there's some juggling between time_t and "struct
tm" which happens, which involves calling our own
tm_to_time_t().

If that function returns an error (e.g., because it only
handles dates up to the year 2099), it returns "-1", which
we treat as a time_t, and is clearly bogus, leading to
bizarre timestamps (that seem to always adjust the time back
to (time_t)(uint32_t)-1, in the year 2106).

It's not a good idea for local_tzoffset() to simply die
here; it would make it hard to run "git log" on a repository
with funny timestamps. Instead, let's just treat such cases
as "zero offset".

Reported-by: Norbert Kiesel <nkiesel@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
date.c
t/t0006-date.sh