[issue19748] test_time failures on AIX

[David Edelsohn]

David Edelsohn added the comment:

WITHOUT the patch to timemodule.c:

>>> time.ctime(-2**29)
'Fri Dec 26 21:11:28 1952'
>>> time.ctime(2**29)
'Mon Jan  5 10:48:32 1987'

ERROR: test_mktime (test.test_time.TimeTestCase)
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Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/home/dje/src/cpython/Lib/test/test_time.py", line 354, in test_mktime
    self.assertEqual(time.mktime(tt), t)
OverflowError: mktime argument out of range

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