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AI-generatedOpenSSL ASN.1 TIME parsing vs application local‑time conversion: timezone offset handling
Goal Ensure that OpenSSL’s ASN.1 TIME parsing consistently translates timezone offsets into a predictable representation for applications that convert the returned time to local civil time. Constraints and uncertainty OpenSSL currently returns the time as a time_t value interpreted as UTC, discarding any timezone offset present in the ASN.1 TIME field. Some
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