Date: Fri, 7 Mar 2003 05:10:15 -0800 (PST) From: Mike Makonnen <mtm@identd.net> To: freebsd-bugs@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: misc/48993: strptime() does not fill in some fields of struct tm Message-ID: <200303071310.h27DAFj9016956@freefall.freebsd.org>
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The following reply was made to PR misc/48993; it has been noted by GNATS. From: Mike Makonnen <mtm@identd.net> To: "Nick Triantos" <nick@triantos.com> Cc: FreeBSD-gnats-submit@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: misc/48993: strptime() does not fill in some fields of struct tm Date: Fri, 7 Mar 2003 08:08:19 -0500 Well, the man page says: If the format string does not contain enough conversion specifications to completely specify the resulting struct tm, the unspecified members of timeptr are left untouched. For example, if format is ``%H:%M:%S'', only tm_hour, tm_sec and tm_min will be modified. If time relative to today is desired, initialize the timeptr structure with today's date before passing it to strptime(). This is a clear contradiction with the actual code since, if the %s or %Z specifiers are used then GMT processing is assumed (unconditionaly for the first and conditional upon a GMT string in the second case) and the rest of the fields are filled in. This does not occur if a non-GMT time is used. This strikes me as inconsistent. Either the rest of the fields should be unconditionaly filled in or not. Your suggestion seems reasonable, but I don't know if there are any Standards issues involved. I'll supply a patch to freebsd-standards, and if no one objects, commit it. Cheers -- Mike Makonnen | GPG-KEY: http://www.identd.net/~mtm/mtm.asc mtm@identd.net | Fingerprint: D228 1A6F C64E 120A A1C9 A3AA DAE1 E2AF DBCC 68B9 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-bugs" in the body of the message
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