[tz] strftime and nonnormalized dates/times
Robert Elz
kre at munnari.OZ.AU
Tue Jul 3 02:58:08 UTC 2018
Date: Mon, 02 Jul 2018 22:13:51 -0400
From: scs at eskimo.com (Steve Summit)
Message-ID: <2018Jul02.2213.scs.0001 at quinine.home>
| But if strftime doesn't restrict the ranges of the various struct
| tm fields to their "normal" values, it makes me wonder how much
| latitude a push-the-boundaries programmer actually has when
| calling strftime. Are the values as unlimited as they are when
| calling, say, mktime?
What POSIX says is:
If any of the specified values are outside the normal range,
the characters stored are unspecified.
which means that if you provide a value for tm_hour outside the 0..23
range, what happens is anyone's guess (and you cannot complain.)
kre
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