FreeTDS Development Group

[Bob Kline <bkline AT rksystems.com>]

On Thu, 9 Nov 2000, Mark O'Donohue wrote:

> 
> The calculation intermediate in this line
> 
> long   seconds = (long)((days - 25567)*(24*60*60))
>                  + (long)(time/300);
> 
> defaults to int arithmatic rather than long before the cast.  So
> dates > 2040 are wrong.
> 
> The patch below defines days as a long so that the calculation then
> defaults to long arithmateic and it doesn't overflow.

What happened to the patch I sent in on 14 August this past summer which
fixed this problem and at least one other failure?  We should probably
apply that patch to make sure all the affected areas get fixed, or at
least look at it.  Was there a problem with that patch, Craig?

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Bob Kline
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