Re: os.date question

On Jan 8, 2007, at 8:53 AM, Luiz Henrique de Figueiredo wrote:

On the other hand, this program

for y=1960,1980 do
print(y,os.time{year=y,month=1,day=1})
end

cannot handle years before 1970 (see below). So it seems a limitation
of localtime (which is what os.date uses) not of mktime (which is what
os.time uses). [I wonder why mktime does not give an error past 1902.]

Output on Mac OSX (US Eastern Standard time zone)

1960 -315558000

1961 -283935600

1962 -252399600

1963 -220863600

1964 -189327600

1965 -157705200

1966 -126169200

1967 -94633200

1968 -63097200

1969 -31474800

1970 61200

1971 31597200

1972 63133200

1973 94755600

1974 126291600

1975 157827600

1976 189363600

1977 220986000

1978 252522000

1979 284058000

1980 315594000