Another place where we have to protect against MSVC's time-conversion

[obnox/wireshark/wip.git] / wiretap / ngsniffer.c

diff --git a/wiretap/ngsniffer.c b/wiretap/ngsniffer.c
index 1a2322d319afaeec51391954464cac5dda51f1e4..4dd24117728d79acf6a20f7bcec6f07a6c365b51 100644 (file)
--- a/wiretap/ngsniffer.c
+++ b/wiretap/ngsniffer.c
@@ -2104,8 +2104,16 @@ ngsniffer_dump(wtap_dumper *wdh, const struct wtap_pkthdr *phdr,
           date. */
        if (ngsniffer->first_frame) {
                ngsniffer->first_frame=FALSE;
+#ifdef _MSC_VER
+               /* calling localtime() on MSVC 2005 with huge values causes it to crash */
+               /* XXX - find the exact value that still does work */
+               /* XXX - using _USE_32BIT_TIME_T might be another way to circumvent this problem */
+               if (phdr->ts.secs > 2000000000)
+                       tm = NULL;
+               else
+#endif
                tm = localtime(&phdr->ts.secs);
-               if (tm != NULL) {
+               if (tm != NULL || tm->tm_year < 1980) {
                        start_date = (tm->tm_year - (1980 - 1900)) << 9;
                        start_date |= (tm->tm_mon + 1) << 5;
                        start_date |= tm->tm_mday;