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From: Viet Than <thanhoangviet@gmail.com>
To: linux-man@vger.kernel.org
Cc: mtk.manpages@gmail.com, alx.manpages@gmail.com
Subject: [PATCH] time.2: wfix regarding year-2038
Date: Sat, 24 Jul 2021 11:52:32 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAL9Lf7yvYytb3Q9mHfK-dkxhk+80R1jGB5eRL_w7+qXDQG2RTw@mail.gmail.com> (raw)

Hi,

The old description led me to believe 2038-01-19 03:14:08 UTC==2**31
therefore would still be valid, and that undefined behavior would
begin from 2038-01-19 03:14:09 UTC.
Searched up to be sure.
Modified wording to be more precise.

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..f15dfa325 100644
--- a/man2/time.2
+++ b/man2/time.2
@@ -94,7 +94,7 @@ specified as NULL cannot fail with the error
 even on ABIs where
 .I time_t
 is a signed 32-bit integer and the clock ticks past the time 2**31
-(2038-01-19 03:14:08 UTC, ignoring leap seconds).
+(occurs when past 2038-01-19 03:14:07 UTC, ignoring leap seconds).
 (POSIX.1 permits, but does not require, the
 .B EOVERFLOW
 error in the case where the seconds since the Epoch will not fit in
--
2.25.1

             reply	other threads:[~2021-07-24 15:52 UTC|newest]

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

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