Date:	Tue, 21 May 2002 19:15:55 +0300
From:	"Eli Zaretskii" <eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il>
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Subject:	Re: mktime() for 1969 & 2106
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> From: Alex Vinokur <alexvn AT bigfoot DOT com>
> Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.djgpp
> Date: Tue, 21 May 2002 15:21:07 +0200
> 
> We can see that still there is a problem in interval
> [ 1970:01:01::00:00:00  -  1970:01:01::01:59:58 ].

For your timezone, any time before 1970:01:01::01:59:59 is invalid,
since that's before the beginning of the epoch (you are 2 hours ahead
of UTC).  The fact that some values before that _are_ representable
is probably some subtle bug in mktime.

The rest of the log looks okay to me.

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