python mktime fails with overflow (same call works in other environments)

YONETANI Tomokazu qhwt+dfly at les.ath.cx
Wed Sep 24 16:15:09 PDT 2008


On Wed, Sep 24, 2008 at 01:53:58PM -0500, Aran Cox wrote:
> mktime is failing in python2.4 and python2.5 under DragonflyBSD 2.0
> for certain date/times:
> 
> >>> from time import mktime
> >>> tt=(2006, 4, 2, 2, 16, 27, -1, -1, -1)
> >>> mktime(tt)
> Traceback (most recent call last):
>   File "<stdin>", line 1, in ?
> OverflowError: mktime argument out of range
> 
> When I run the above python snippet on any other system I have access
> to (Fedora 9, OpenBSD 4.1, etc.) I get:
> 
> >>> mktime(tt)
> 1143944187.0

It works as expected(1143944187.0) here with python2.5 built from pkgsrc,
on DragonFly 2.0 or 2.1.

Cheers.





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