Ethereal-dev: Re: [Ethereal-dev] Patch: RFC 3514 support

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From: dheitmueller <dheitmueller@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Tue, 01 Apr 2003 01:10:37 -0500 (EST)
Looks fine.  Except the argument to localtime() needs to be &now, and not &tmp.  Should we be checking for timezone?  Otherwise I would be five hours off because I'm on Eastern US time and localtime() returns GMT.

Also, on Win32, we may wish to use _localtime64(), so we can handle up to December 31, 3000 UTC.  I'd hate to commit a change, and have everything break in 2038.

Devin Heitmueller
Senior Software Engineer
Netilla Networks Inc

Quoting Guy Harris <guy@xxxxxxxxxx>:

> On Tue, Apr 01, 2003 at 12:29:32AM -0500, dheitmueller wrote:
> > Attached is a patch to add support for RFC 3514.
> 
> To support older IP implementations, perhaps there should be a
> configurable option for that - or perhaps it should just do
> 
> 	time_t now;
> 	struct tm *tmp;
> 
> 	now = time(NULL);
> 	tmp = localtime(&tmp);
> 	if (tmp->tm_mon == 3 && tmp->tm_mday == 1)
> 		do the new decoding
> 	else
> 		do the old decoding
>