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- Y2K compliance in libpng:
- =========================
- December 18, 2008
- Since the PNG Development group is an ad-hoc body, we can't make
- an official declaration.
- This is your unofficial assurance that libpng from version 0.71 and
- upward through 1.2.34 are Y2K compliant. It is my belief that earlier
- versions were also Y2K compliant.
- Libpng only has three year fields. One is a 2-byte unsigned integer
- that will hold years up to 65535. The other two hold the date in text
- format, and will hold years up to 9999.
- The integer is
- "png_uint_16 year" in png_time_struct.
- The strings are
- "png_charp time_buffer" in png_struct and
- "near_time_buffer", which is a local character string in png.c.
- There are seven time-related functions:
- png_convert_to_rfc_1123() in png.c
- (formerly png_convert_to_rfc_1152() in error)
- png_convert_from_struct_tm() in pngwrite.c, called in pngwrite.c
- png_convert_from_time_t() in pngwrite.c
- png_get_tIME() in pngget.c
- png_handle_tIME() in pngrutil.c, called in pngread.c
- png_set_tIME() in pngset.c
- png_write_tIME() in pngwutil.c, called in pngwrite.c
- All appear to handle dates properly in a Y2K environment. The
- png_convert_from_time_t() function calls gmtime() to convert from system
- clock time, which returns (year - 1900), which we properly convert to
- the full 4-digit year. There is a possibility that applications using
- libpng are not passing 4-digit years into the png_convert_to_rfc_1123()
- function, or that they are incorrectly passing only a 2-digit year
- instead of "year - 1900" into the png_convert_from_struct_tm() function,
- but this is not under our control. The libpng documentation has always
- stated that it works with 4-digit years, and the APIs have been
- documented as such.
- The tIME chunk itself is also Y2K compliant. It uses a 2-byte unsigned
- integer to hold the year, and can hold years as large as 65535.
- zlib, upon which libpng depends, is also Y2K compliant. It contains
- no date-related code.
- Glenn Randers-Pehrson
- libpng maintainer
- PNG Development Group