RE: [Bug-gnulib] getdate.y question

[Conrad T. Pino]

Hi Derek,

> From: Derek Robert Price
> 
> Paul Eggert wrote:
> 
> >I hope nobody is relying on getdate's current mktime-like behavior.
> >On the other hand, fixing getdate to reject invalid dates like "Apr
> >31" would be a bit of work, due to some tricky interactions between
> >mktime, overflow checking, and time zones.
> 
> Anyone with more experience with time issues than I have time (no pun
> intended) to take a shot at fixing mktime.c?

I haven't been following this thread closely.  I do have experience
implementing Julian Day Number algorigthms in C & Java:

   http://www.hermetic.ch/cal_stud/jdn.htm

Where should I look to find out what the issue is?

> Derek

Conrad