Addition to Arthur Olsen/4.3bsd table-driven ctime
Sat Feb 25 02:52:01 UTC 2012
> While working over ctime, I came up with a couple of questions:
>
> In asctime, shouldn't the year really be printed with %4d
> (or maybe %-4d) so that the returned string is guaranteed
> to have its advertised 26-character length? (I realize
> that the code is lifted directly from the X3J11 draft
> standard, and that %d will only get it wrong for dates in
> the middle ages that a 32-bit time_t can't begin to reach.
> On the other hand, asctime gets handed a broken-down tm
> struct, so early years are quite possible.)
>
> Shouldn't the offtime() routine be declared static?
> It's not a publicized interface.
>
> Steve Summit
> stevesu at copper.tek.com
Even %4d won't guarantee the advertised 26-character length if tm_year
is big (or small) enough (for example, 10000); bogus tm_wday and tm_mon
values can cause problems as well. You may want to send a note to an
X3J11 committee member.
offtime was declared static in the mod.sources posting unless
STD_INSPIRED was defined. Its eventual fate lies more in the hands of
standards committees and other folks wiser than yours truly at this point.
--ado
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