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authorakr <akr@b2dd03c8-39d4-4d8f-98ff-823fe69b080e>2014-08-14 13:10:07 +0000
committerakr <akr@b2dd03c8-39d4-4d8f-98ff-823fe69b080e>2014-08-14 13:10:07 +0000
commit05e756f367d4e49e5da40354d6a9f2c1ea10b12c (patch)
tree31b234f7afa6382b179f69b63b61dac0de34d1b8 /time.c
parentfbd13e924038f038c4bab10ad2463311edb413b7 (diff)
Revert r46977. [ruby-core:63857] [Bug #10071]
The removed comment is useful to understand the behind idea to solve the year 2038 problem. The broken link is replaced to refer the internet archive. https://github.com/ruby/ruby/commit/0eed69757dd2bc0eb460a5dc38e377ac8e2cbfd9#commitcomment-7166665 git-svn-id: svn+ssh://ci.ruby-lang.org/ruby/trunk@47179 b2dd03c8-39d4-4d8f-98ff-823fe69b080e
Diffstat (limited to 'time.c')
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1 files changed, 6 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/time.c b/time.c
index db2a537b09..04f99f2dca 100644
--- a/time.c
+++ b/time.c
@@ -1323,9 +1323,13 @@ gmtimew(wideval_t timew, struct vtm *result)
static struct tm *localtime_with_gmtoff_zone(const time_t *t, struct tm *result, long *gmtoff, const char **zone);
/*
- * This table finds the last month which starts at the same day of a week.
+ * The idea is borrowed from Perl:
+ * http://web.archive.org/web/20080211114141/http://use.perl.org/articles/08/02/07/197204.shtml
*
- * It can be generated by the following program:
+ * compat_common_month_table is generated by the following program.
+ * This table finds the last month which starts at the same day of a week.
+ * The year 2037 is not used because:
+ * http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=522949
*
* #!/usr/bin/ruby
*