Re: [Boost-testing] Regression testing (1.33)

From: Victor A. Wagner Jr. (vawjr_at_[hidden])
Date: 2005-06-02 07:26:11

At 10:59 2005-06-01, Bronek Kozicki wrote:
>Victor A. Wagner Jr. wrote:
>>seems to be no reason for it.  I'd certainly like to hear a defense of 
>>the decision to cause a program failure if the date being output is 
>>before 1970.
>
>maybe because they have better function and type for wider range of times, 
>namely localtime64 and __time64_t ? Moreover, this limitation applies also 
>to older versions of MSVC, see following comment from localtim.c :
>
>(3) It is assumed that time_t is a 32-bit long integer representing
>the number of seconds since 00:00:00, 01-01-70 (UTC) (i.e., the
>Posix/Unix Epoch. Only non-negative values are supported.
>
>Above comment is present in CRT sources of both MSVC6 and MSVC71. I do not 
>know how this relates to standards in *nix world.

One has to wonder why the test functions in 7.1 then and fails in 
8.0.  Surely you don't imply that the older libraries were "better".

>B.

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