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Re: [PATCH 4/5] Handle both ISO 8601 encodings of midnight in mktime64()

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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@redhat.com>
> cc: John Stultz <john.stultz@linaro.org>
> cc: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
> cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
> 

Acked-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
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[PATCH 0/5] X.509: Fix time handling David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com> - 2015-12-18 01:10 +0100
  [PATCH 4/5] Handle both ISO 8601 encodings of midnight in mktime64() David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com> - 2015-12-18 01:10 +0100
    Re: [PATCH 4/5] Handle both ISO 8601 encodings of midnight in mktime64() Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de> - 2015-12-18 10:20 +0100
  [PATCH 5/5] X.509: Handle midnight alternative notation in  GeneralizedTime David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com> - 2015-12-18 01:10 +0100

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