Re: Proposed asctime-related changes

"Clive D.W. Feather" <clive@demon.net> writes:

Doesn't matter for defensive coding. Okay, a value of -INT_MAX will print as "Tue" rather than "???", but who cares?

We're talking about code that attempts to defend against nonexistent system bugs of a class that one cannot defend against in general. So to some extent we've gone off the deep end already. As long as we're going to such extremes, we might as well have the code output an appropriate danger signal (in this case "???") whenever any underlying problem can easily be detected.