I have tested on OpenSuSE 11.1. it seems the bug is fixed here. * Linux 2.6.27.42-0.1-default #1 SMP 2010-01-06 16:07:25 +0100 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux * gcc version 4.3.2 [gcc-4_3-branch revision 141291] (SUSE Linux) * GNU C Library stable release version 2.9 (20081117), by Roland McGrath et al. t: 67767976233532798, tp: 0x7fc6fc4e3de0 errno: 0 sec: 58, min: 59, hour: 23, mday: 31, mon: 11, year: 2147481747, wday: 2, yday: 364, isdst: 0, gmtoff: 0, zone: GMT t: 67767976233532799, tp: 0x7fc6fc4e3de0 errno: 0 sec: 59, min: 59, hour: 23, mday: 31, mon: 11, year: 2147481747, wday: 2, yday: 364, isdst: 0, gmtoff: 0, zone: GMT t: 67767976233532800, tp: 0x7fc6fc4e3de0 errno: 0 sec: 0, min: 0, hour: 0, mday: 1, mon: 0, year: 2147481748, wday: 3, yday: 0, isdst: 0, gmtoff: 0, zone: GMT t: 67767976233532801, tp: 0x7fc6fc4e3de0 errno: 0 sec: 1, min: 0, hour: 0, mday: 1, mon: 0, year: 2147481748, wday: 3, yday: 0, isdst: 0, gmtoff: 0, zone: GMT re, wh
The output on a 64 bit machine is (the interesting part is the sec=59)
t: 67767976233532798, tp: 0x80085b9a0 errno: 2 sec: 58, min: 59, hour: 23, mday: 31, mon: 11, year: 2147481747, wday: 2, yday: 364, isdst: 0, gmtoff: 0, zone: UTC t: 67767976233532799, tp: 0x80085b9a0 errno: 0 sec: 59, min: 59, hour: 23, mday: 31, mon: 11, year: 2147481747, wday: 2, yday: 364, isdst: 0, gmtoff: 0, zone: UTC t: 67767976233532800, tp: 0x80085b9a0 errno: 0 sec: 59, min: 59, hour: 23, mday: 31, mon: 11, year: 2147481747, wday: 2, yday: 364, isdst: 0, gmtoff: 0, zone: UTC t: 67767976233532801, tp: 0x80085b9a0 errno: 0 sec: 59, min: 59, hour: 23, mday: 31, mon: 11, year: 2147481747, wday: 2, yday: 364, isdst: 0, gmtoff: 0, zone: UTC
Right now, I am looking for confirmation from people on the list if this behaviour is also happening on other 64 bit operating systems or that it is a FreeBSD specific quirk.
Edwin