From b31188f465d90c9f2a108ead4bcca4f04f4879cc Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Linas Vepstas <linas@linas.org>
Date: Sat, 27 Jan 2001 17:13:01 +0000
Subject: [PATCH] add notes explaining some date funcs

git-svn-id: svn+ssh://svn.gnucash.org/repo/gnucash/trunk@3540 57a11ea4-9604-0410-9ed3-97b8803252fd
---
 src/engine/date.c | 4 ++++
 src/engine/date.h | 6 ++++++
 2 files changed, 10 insertions(+)

diff --git a/src/engine/date.c b/src/engine/date.c
index fa486dd7d1..da90c9989f 100644
--- a/src/engine/date.c
+++ b/src/engine/date.c
@@ -327,6 +327,8 @@ char dateSeparator ()
 /********************************************************************\
  * iso 8601 datetimes should look like 1998-07-02 11:00:00.68-05
 \********************************************************************/
+/* hack alert -- this routine returns incorrect values for 
+ * dates before 1970 */
 
 Timespec
 gnc_iso8601_to_timespec(const char *str)
@@ -373,6 +375,8 @@ gnc_iso8601_to_timespec(const char *str)
 
 /********************************************************************\
 \********************************************************************/
+/* hack alert -- this routine returns incorrect values for 
+ * dates before 1970 */
 
 time_t 
 xaccDMYToSec (int day, int month, int year)
diff --git a/src/engine/date.h b/src/engine/date.h
index 134c327df1..7a59afd331 100644
--- a/src/engine/date.h
+++ b/src/engine/date.h
@@ -133,6 +133,12 @@ void scanDate (const char *buff, int *day, int *month, int *year);
  */
 char dateSeparator(void);
 
+/*
+ * hack alert XXX FIXME -- these date routines return incorrect
+ * values for dates before 1970.  Most of them are good only up 
+ * till 2038.  This needs fixing ...
+ */
+
 time_t xaccDMYToSec (int day, int month, int year);
 time_t xaccScanDateS (const char *buff);