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From: Alan Mackenzie <acm@muc.de>
To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>, stefankangas@gmail.com
Cc: acm@muc.de, 58224-done@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#58224: 29.0.50; "make bootstrap" spuriously warns: "comp.el newer than byte-compiled file"
Date: Sun, 2 Oct 2022 20:37:14 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <Yzn2egzILYFwa4Px@ACM> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <838rly17e9.fsf@gnu.org>

Hello, Eli and Stefan.

On Sun, Oct 02, 2022 at 20:07:26 +0300, Eli Zaretskii wrote:
> > Date: Sun, 2 Oct 2022 16:46:01 +0000
> > Cc: stefankangas@gmail.com, 58224@debbugs.gnu.org, acm@muc.de
> > From: Alan Mackenzie <acm@muc.de>

> > > > In lread.c I've got:

> > > >   struct timespec epoch_timespec = {(time_t)0, 0}; /* 1970-01-01T00:00 UTC */ 

> > > > , which clearly isn't satisfactory.

> > > I'm not sure I follow: why not satisfactory?

> > Don't we build for operating systems with different epochs?

> No, the Epoch is the same for everyone.  It's a Posix notion, AFAIK.

> > > Is mktime the function you are after?

> > Yes thanks!  But it's horribly complicated, involving wierd readings and
> > settings of the TZ environment variable, and so on.

> Not if you are interested in UTC.

> > If a binary zero time would do (as above), maybe it would be
> > satisfactory.  ;-)

> Yes.

OK, that's great!  I've committed a patch, and I'm closing the bug with
this post.

-- 
Alan Mackenzie (Nuremberg, Germanay).





  reply	other threads:[~2022-10-02 20:37 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 16+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2022-10-01 14:15 bug#58224: 29.0.50; "make bootstrap" spuriously warns: "comp.el newer than byte-compiled file" Stefan Kangas
2022-10-01 14:29 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2022-10-01 14:50 ` Eli Zaretskii
2022-10-01 16:10   ` Stefan Kangas
2022-10-01 18:11     ` Alan Mackenzie
2022-10-01 21:15       ` Alan Mackenzie
2022-10-02  5:59         ` Eli Zaretskii
2022-10-02 10:43           ` Alan Mackenzie
2022-10-02 11:04             ` Eli Zaretskii
2022-10-02 11:32               ` Alan Mackenzie
2022-10-02 15:38               ` Alan Mackenzie
2022-10-02 15:54                 ` Eli Zaretskii
2022-10-02 16:46                   ` Alan Mackenzie
2022-10-02 17:07                     ` Eli Zaretskii
2022-10-02 20:37                       ` Alan Mackenzie [this message]
2022-10-02 21:29                         ` Stefan Kangas

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