time.mktime memory access violation bug

[Irmen de Jong]

Bengt Richter wrote:
>  Python 2.3.2 (#49, Oct  2 2003, 20:02:00) [MSC v.1200 32 bit (Intel)] on win32
>  Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.
>  >>> import time
>  >>> time.mktime((1969, 12, 31, 17, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0))
>  3600.0
>  >>> time.mktime((1969, 12, 31, 17, 0, 0, 0, 0, 1))
>  0.0
>  >>> time.mktime((1969, 12, 31, 16, 0, 0, 0, 0, 1))
>  [crash with popup]

Curious. I get (windows XP):

Python 2.3.2 (#49, Oct  2 2003, 20:02:00) [MSC v.1200 32 bit (Intel)] on win32
Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.
 >>> import time
 >>> time.mktime((1969, 12, 31, 17, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0))
Traceback (most recent call last):
   File "<stdin>", line 1, in ?
OverflowError: mktime argument out of range
 >>> time.mktime((1969, 12, 31, 17, 0, 0, 0, 0, 1))
Traceback (most recent call last):
   File "<stdin>", line 1, in ?
OverflowError: mktime argument out of range
 >>> time.mktime((1969, 12, 31, 16, 0, 0, 0, 0, 1))
Traceback (most recent call last):
   File "<stdin>", line 1, in ?
OverflowError: mktime argument out of range
 >>>

On Linux I get the same results. Something fishy is going
on with your Python...

--Irmen de Jong