From: Phillip Wood <phillip.wood123@gmail.com>
Date: Mon, 03 Jun 2024 14:13:03 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2] date: detect underflow when parsing dates with positive timezone offset
Message-ID: <67c23773-21a4-4ad5-9b98-5e44578166dd@gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <2d771a72-3021-46db-ac32-e008a7ace34c@gmail.com>

Hi darcy

On 03/06/2024 12:44, darcy wrote:
>> Do we also want to check for overflows in the other direction (a large 
>> timestamp with a negative timezone offset)?
> 
> Is this something people want added? I am happy to implement this if
> so, though it wasn't my original intention.

I think if we're worried about the date overflowing in one direction it 
makes sense to fix overflows in the other direction at the same time 
especially as I think that the other case involves a signed integer 
overflow which is undefined behavior in C.

Best Wishes

Phillip