Re: mktime fails for pre 1970 on Fedora 3

Tim Roberts wrote:

> It's not glibc. It is much more deeply embedded in the depths of the
> operating system. Just try to work with a date past February, 2038.

I'm not referring to the 32/64 bit issue. On some UNIX platforms, such as
FreeBSD, mktime handles pre-1970 dates with a workable negative value. On
many Linux distros all you get for anything before 1 Jan 1970 is -1. If
Perl's Date::Calc can handle all this why can't PHP?

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