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Clarify wxDateTime::GetTicks() limitation even more

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Explain that this function exists only for interoperability purposes and
that GetValue() should be preferred for anything else.

Closes #18182.
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Vadim Zeitlin
2018-08-01 12:02:51 +02:00
parent 95857a1f71
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@@ -572,9 +572,13 @@ public:
/** /**
Returns the number of seconds since Jan 1, 1970 UTC. Returns the number of seconds since Jan 1, 1970 UTC.
If the date is not in the range covered by 32 bit @c time_t type, @c -1 This function is provided solely for interoperability with the standard
is returned, use GetValue() if you work with dates outside of this C library and other libraries using @c time_t values. If you just need
range. to get the value represented by this object as a number, use GetValue()
instead, which doesn't lose precision and covers the entire supported
range of dates, unlike this one which is limited to the range of
positive 32 bit values, i.e. from Jan 1, 1970 to around Jan 19, 2038
and returns @c -1 for the dates outside of it.
Additionally, this method must be called on an initialized date object Additionally, this method must be called on an initialized date object
and an assertion failure occurs if it is called on an object for which and an assertion failure occurs if it is called on an object for which