From: Yukihiro Matsumoto <matz@...>
Date: 2005-03-11T07:51:09+09:00
Subject: Re: Time.c on Win32

Hi,

In message "Re: Time.c on Win32"
    on Fri, 11 Mar 2005 05:15:59 +0900, Richard Kilmer <rich@infoether.com> writes:

|Hope this is not noise for this list, but could someone explain why we
|cannot pass a negative argument into Time.at on Windows?  What on OS X and
|Linux makes this OK and not on Win32?

Because time.c rely on underlying time calculation functions on the
platform (e.g. mktime), and those on Win32 happen not to support
negative time_t.

							matz.