is used as a sentinel () to detect if -1 is really an error or a valid
timestamp. On AIX, tm_wday is unchanged even on success and so cannot be used
as a sentinel.
def test_mktime(self):
# Issue #1726687
for t in (-2, -1, 0, 1):
+ if sys.platform.startswith('aix') and t == -1:
+ # Issue #11188, #19748: mktime() returns -1 on error. On Linux,
+ # the tm_wday field is used as a sentinel () to detect if -1 is
+ # really an error or a valid timestamp. On AIX, tm_wday is
+ # unchanged even on success and so cannot be used as a
+ # sentinel.
+ continue
try:
tt = time.localtime(t)
except (OverflowError, OSError):