Re: [PATCH] Y2K Problem with HTTP::Date (libwww-5.42)

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Gisle Aas <gisle@aas.no> wrote:
	>snip<
> sub str2time ($;$)
	>snip<
>     # timelocal() seems to go into an infinite loop if it is given out of
>     # range parameters.

	What systems/versions does timelocal() do this?  Under 5.00502 on
	FreeBSD it returns -1 on integer overflow, as documented.  Does it
	not do this everywhere and/or does it have problems on older Perl
	versions?

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