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Date: Fri, 18 Dec 2015 10:11:47 +0100
From: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@...db.de>
To: David Howells <dhowells@...hat.com>
Cc: keyrings@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
stable@...r.kernel.org, linux-security-module@...r.kernel.org,
John Stultz <john.stultz@...aro.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 4/5] Handle both ISO 8601 encodings of midnight in mktime64()
On Friday 18 December 2015 00:02:17 David Howells wrote:
> ISO 8601 format dates permit two different encodings of midnight - 00:00:00
> and 24:00:00 - the first is midnight today and the second is midnight
> tomorrow and is exactly equivalent to the first with tomorrow's date.
>
> Note that the implementation of mktime64() doesn't actually need to be
> changed to handle this - the multiplication by 3600 of the hour will take
> care of it automatically. However, we should document that this handling
> is done in mktime64() and is thus in a common place in the kernel.
>
> This handling is required for X.509 certificate parsing which can be given
> ISO 8601 dates.
>
> Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@...hat.com>
> cc: John Stultz <john.stultz@...aro.org>
> cc: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@...db.de>
> cc: stable@...r.kernel.org
>
Acked-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@...db.de>
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