"Robert J. Brown" <rj@elilabs.com> writes:
> I am installing this copy of postgresql-7.2.1 on a freshly installed
> copy of Red Hat Linux 7.3,
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
Complain to the glibc boys. They gratitutously broke mktime() for
pre-1970 dates. We're still looking for a workaround.
regards, tom lane