Re: [PATCH 0/3] fix local_tzoffset with far-in-future dates

From

Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>

Date

Jun 20, 2016, 22:11 UTC

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Jeff King <peff@peff.net> writes:

> I still don't know how that screwed-up timestamp got _into_
> a commit, so perhaps there is another bug lurking.  I couldn't convince
> git to parse anything beyond 2100, and committing with
> GIT_AUTHOR_DATE='@5758122296 +0000' works just fine.

Interesting.  The weirdest I could come up with was with

    GIT_AUTHOR_DATE='@5758122296 -9999

>   [1/3]: t0006: rename test-date's "show" to "relative"
>   [2/3]: t0006: test various date formats
>   [3/3]: local_tzoffset: detect errors from tm_to_time_t

Thanks, will queue.