Re: [tz] why does mktime binary search?

Russ Allbery wrote:

If you call a library function that is documented as setting errno, and it does not return an error, errno is undefined.

Yes, and this is a glitch in mktime's API: if mktime succeeds and returns (time_t)-1, errno might still be set. Although mktime's caller can detect whether (time_t)-1 represents an error by passing (time_t)-1 to localtime_r and comparing the resulting struct tm to the one that mktime returned, this is annoying.