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).
next prev parent 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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