Re: [PATCH v2] time.2: wfix regarding year-2038

["Alejandro Colomar (man-pages)" <alx.manpages@gmail.com>]

Hi Viet, Jakub,

On 7/25/21 1:51 AM, Viet Than wrote:
>> 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

Thanks for the review, Jakub!

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

Patch applied (manually as it was corrupt).

Thanks,

Alex

> ---
> 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
> 

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Alejandro Colomar
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