Martin Nilsson (Coppermist) @ Pike (-) developers forum wrote:
I think the question is if we should assume that the platforms will be fixed, if we should write a workaround for those platforms, or if we should drop support for those platforms. I don't think dropping the
The only sane workaround would seem to be that if the libc mktime() cannot handle it, we fall back on Calendar. Anything else would be a disaster waiting to happen with respect to daylight saving time after 2038.