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-rw-r--r--crypto/asn1/a_utctm.c9
1 files changed, 8 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/crypto/asn1/a_utctm.c b/crypto/asn1/a_utctm.c
index b855867dc1..e3e5c45906 100644
--- a/crypto/asn1/a_utctm.c
+++ b/crypto/asn1/a_utctm.c
@@ -291,5 +291,12 @@ time_t ASN1_UTCTIME_get(const ASN1_UTCTIME *s)
}
#undef g2
- return mktime(&tm)-offset*60;
+ return mktime(&tm)-offset*60; /* FIXME: mktime assumes the current timezone
+ * instead of UTC, and unless we rewrite OpenSSL
+ * in Lisp we cannot locally change the timezone
+ * without possibly interfering with other parts
+ * of the program. timegm, which uses UTC, is
+ * non-standard.
+ * Also time_t is inappropriate for general
+ * UTC times because it may a 32 bit type. */
}