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Date: Wed, 26 Apr 2006 12:56:09 +0200
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Subject: Re: [Patch] patch -Z not working if timestamp contains seconds >=59.5
From: "Christian Franke" <Christian.Franke@t-online.de>
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Corinna Vinschen wrote:

> I don't see what this has to do with gmtime/localtime since both
> functions create a struct tm from a time_t, not the other way around.

maketime() calculates time_t from tm by an iterative method using the
inverse function.

>
> I just tested your testcase with patch-2.5.9 on Linux and the same
> effect happens, so it's apparently not a Cygwin specific problem.
>
> Would you mind to discuss this on bug-patch AT gnu DOT org?  

OK.

Christian


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