[PATCH v2 4/7] misc: syslog: Simplify implementation

[Paul Eggert]

On 2/21/22 06:06, Andreas Schwab wrote:
>> Also, the old code crashed when __localtime_r returns NULL
> How can that happen?

When the resulting tm_year would precede INT_MIN + 1900 or follow 
INT_MAX + 1900. Although this shouldn't happen on systems with accurate 
clocks for billions of years, syslog should work even when the clock is 
outlandishly wrong, to help diagnose clock failures etc.