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From: Viet Than <thanhoangviet@gmail.com>
To: Jakub Wilk <jwilk@jwilk.net>
Cc: linux-man@vger.kernel.org,
	Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>,
	Alejandro Colomar <alx.manpages@gmail.com>
Subject: [PATCH v2] time.2: wfix regarding year-2038
Date: Sat, 24 Jul 2021 19:51:28 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAL9Lf7xpqJd9dHiRiJnX+WcEmC_Cb0fqvQtcVKfvzrz7WydK2w@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20210724163944.cqp66jrpipj2khn6@jwilk.net>

> I suppose this should say "...the clock reaches the time 2**31",
> and then we can keep the parenthetical as is.
Thanks for the insight!  here's the new patch

Cc: Jakub Wilk <jwilk@jwilk.net>
Signed-off-by: Viet Than <thanhoangviet@gmail.com>

---
man2/time.2 | 2 +-
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/man2/time.2 b/man2/time.2
index 059222dcd..a7410bfc8 100644
--- a/man2/time.2
+++ b/man2/time.2
@@ -93,7 +93,7 @@ specified as NULL cannot fail with the error
.BR EOVERFLOW ,
even on ABIs where
.I time_t
-is a signed 32-bit integer and the clock ticks past the time 2**31
+is a signed 32-bit integer and the clock reaches at or beyond the time 2**31
(2038-01-19 03:14:08 UTC, ignoring leap seconds).
(POSIX.1 permits, but does not require, the
.B EOVERFLOW
-- 
2.25.1

  reply	other threads:[~2021-07-24 23:51 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2021-07-24 15:52 [PATCH] time.2: wfix regarding year-2038 Viet Than
2021-07-24 16:39 ` Jakub Wilk
2021-07-24 23:51   ` Viet Than [this message]
2021-07-26 10:16     ` [PATCH v2] " Alejandro Colomar (man-pages)

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