Henrik Grubbstr?m (Lysator) @ Pike (-) developers forum wrote:
As a by-product of creating the Val.Timestamp (et al) types, I encountered numerous bugs and uncertainties in mktime() and System.TM() with regard to timezone handling/abuse.
Sounds good to me. No objection.
I rounded up the cleanups by Martin and dropped the fname argument as well, and ported the lot to 8.0.
I tried doing that with your bignum patch, but that resulted in a missing function in 8.0, so if that should be ported too, you please look into it.