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

From: Victor A. Wagner Jr. (vawjr_at_[hidden])
Date: 2005-06-02 15:16:35

At 09:31 2005-06-02, Caleb Epstein wrote:
>On 6/2/05, John Maddock <john_at_[hidden]> wrote:
>
> > From a practical viewpoint, I guess the question is are
> > there any platforms that accept negative times?  It's not as illogical 
> as it
> > might appear if they do - it's the only way to represent dates before 
> 1970 I
> > believe.
>
>Yes.  Linux for example is more than happy to report that the
>localtime equivalent of numeric_limits<time_t>::min() is 1901-12-13
>15:45:52 EST.  Solaris reports that it is -2147483648=1901-12-13
>16:45:52 EWT (Eastern War Time?)

IMO even 1900 is a rediculously late "minimum" time. especially for 
boost::date_time which shouldn't be "bound" to any particular hardware or OS.

>I would contend that the behavior of the MSVC runtime is a bug.  Worst
>case It should definitely not assert and best case it should behave
>like POSIX systems do (e.g. treat it as a date before the Epoch).
>
>--
>Caleb Epstein
>caleb dot epstein at gmail dot com
>
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