On Fri, 6 Oct 2000, Dave Huang wrote:
> Hmm, interesting... I bet it has to do with negative timezone offsets...
> if I link /etc/localtime to GMT or Australia, it works, but US doesn't.

Yeah, that does seem to be the problem... when loading in the timezone
info, it's stuffing the GMT offset into a 64-bit long rather than 32-bit
int, so negative offsets are being treated as huge positive offsets. The
patch below seems to fix the problem for me... perhaps the mysql-server
package should be updated to use a more recent pthreads package rather
than the one that comes with mysql? (devel/pth perhaps? or
devel/unproven-pthreads? I dunno what the difference is between 'em :)


--- mit-pthreads/gen/ctime.c.orig	Sun Oct 12 07:07:41 1997
+++ mit-pthreads/gen/ctime.c	Fri Oct  6 08:07:31 2000
@@ -129,7 +129,7 @@
 ** Prototypes for static functions.
 */
 
-static long			detzcode __P_((const char *));
+static int32_t			detzcode __P_((const char *));
 static const char *	getnum __P_((const char *, int *, int, int));
 static const char *	getsecs __P_((const char *, long *));
 static const char *	getoffset __P_((const char *, long *));
@@ -175,7 +175,7 @@
 time_t			altzone = 0;
 #endif /* defined ALTZONE */
 
-static long detzcode(const char * codep)
+static int32_t detzcode(const char * codep)
 {
 	long result;
 	int	i;
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