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authorPaul Yang <yang.yang@baishancloud.com>2017-07-30 18:28:54 -0400
committerRich Salz <rsalz@openssl.org>2017-07-30 18:28:54 -0400
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Update ASN1_TIME_to_tm's documentation
To state the fractional seconds part will be lost in the conversion. Reviewed-by: Andy Polyakov <appro@openssl.org> Reviewed-by: Rich Salz <rsalz@openssl.org> (Merged from https://github.com/openssl/openssl/pull/4041)
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diff --git a/doc/man3/ASN1_TIME_set.pod b/doc/man3/ASN1_TIME_set.pod
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--- a/doc/man3/ASN1_TIME_set.pod
+++ b/doc/man3/ASN1_TIME_set.pod
@@ -58,7 +58,9 @@ If B<s> is NULL, then the current time is converted. The output time is GMT.
The B<tm_sec>, B<tm_min>, B<tm_hour>, B<tm_mday>, B<tm_wday>, B<tm_yday>,
B<tm_mon> and B<tm_year> fields of B<tm> structure are set to proper values,
whereas all other fields are set to 0. If B<tm> is NULL this function performs
-a format check on B<s> only.
+a format check on B<s> only. If B<s> is in Generalized format with franctional
+seconds, e.g. YYYYMMDDHHMMSS.SSSZ, the fractional seconds will be lost while
+converting B<s> to B<tm> structure.
ASN1_TIME_diff() sets B<*pday> and B<*psec> to the time difference between
B<from> and B<to>. If B<to> represents a time later than B<from> then