fetchnews.c: invalid operands to binary

[Ken Murchison]

Gabor Gombas wrote:
> On Mon, Apr 10, 2006 at 02:20:08PM +0200, Antoine Jacoutot wrote:
> 
>> Back to this thread again.
>> So, after chatting with some OpenBSD devs, the included patch should fix the
>> issue.
>> It would be nice to officialy include it, if the fix is OK with you (and maybe
>> with an #ifdef in case it only applies to OpenBSD).
> 
> The glibc documentation says: "The `tm_gmtoff' field is derived from BSD
> and is a GNU library extension; it is not visible in a strict ISO C
> environment." So it should be OK for Linux and *BSD, but may still need
> an autoconf feature test for other platforms.
> 
> Also, the meaning of tm_gmtoff is not the same as the global timezone
> variable:
> 
>  -- Variable: long int timezone
>  [...]
> 	Unlike the `tm_gmtoff' member of the broken-down time structure,
> 	this value is not adjusted for daylight saving, and its sign is
> 	reversed.  In GNU programs it is better to use `tm_gmtoff',
> 	since it contains the correct offset even when it is not the
> 	latest one.

I have a portable fix that I am working on right now.

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Kenneth Murchison
Systems Programmer
Project Cyrus Developer/Maintainer
Carnegie Mellon University