From: Neal Norwitz <nnorwitz@gmail.com>
Date: Sun, 3 Nov 2002 00:15:46 +0000 (+0000)
Subject: Fix SF #618146, overflow error in calendar module
X-Git-Tag: v2.2.3c1~260
X-Git-Url: http://git.ipfire.org/gitweb.cgi?a=commitdiff_plain;h=c78de3e2e540649bcac78737f53651298aa9e9fa;p=thirdparty%2FPython%2Fcpython.git

Fix SF #618146, overflow error in calendar module
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diff --git a/Doc/lib/libcalendar.tex b/Doc/lib/libcalendar.tex
index 57ed3b00675e..222e2dbbb9e2 100644
--- a/Doc/lib/libcalendar.tex
+++ b/Doc/lib/libcalendar.tex
@@ -15,6 +15,11 @@ convention). Use \function{setfirstweekday()} to set the first day of the
 week to Sunday (6) or to any other weekday.  Parameters that specify
 dates are given as integers.
 
+Most of these functions rely on the platform provided \function{mktime()}.
+Therefore, valid argument values may vary from system to system.
+On Unix, valid years are typically between \code{1970} and \code{2037},
+but may be work between \code{1902} and \code{2037}.
+
 \begin{funcdesc}{setfirstweekday}{weekday}
 Sets the weekday (\code{0} is Monday, \code{6} is Sunday) to start
 each week. The values \constant{MONDAY}, \constant{TUESDAY},