Re: Problems within epicsTime.cpp

[Andrew Johnson <anj@aps.anl.gov>]

Andrew Johnson wrote:
> No, don't.  Apply the attached patch instead, which is a diff between 
> R3.14.9 and the current head of the R3.14 branch and should work in all 
> timezones.
> The Posix spec apparently does not require that a time_t be expressed in 
> seconds, although Unix historically has used that.  The existing 
> (broken) code does not make that assumption, and neither does my patched 
> version (which I did tell Peter about several months ago), but a using 
> constant probably does.
Oops, maybe it *doesn't* actually solve Peter's problem, but it should 
be the basis of any fix.  Maybe we have to drop the mktime() calls 
[unfortunately there's no posix call gm_mktime()] but could just divide 
the constant by this->time_tSecPerTick?
Jeff, comments?

- Andrew
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