[tz] [PROPOSED 2/2] strftime: conform better to POSIX+

[Clive D.W. Feather]

Robert Elz said:
>   | a reliable way
>   | to determine whether 0 represents failure or buffer exhaustion
> 
> This is not necessary.
> 
> The cases can be distinguished by setting errno to 0 before the call,
> and checking afterwards (if 0 is returned) - if errno is set there was
> an error, if it is still 0, it is something else.

C has no requirement to leave errno unchanged on success.


| The value of errno is zero at program startup, but is
| never set to zero by any library function. The value of
| errno may be set to nonzero by a library function call
| whether or not there is an error, provided the use of errno
| is not documented in the description of the function in this
| International Standard.

strftime is not documented as using errno, so that wording applies.

This is because the library function may have to make a system call to
check how to behave and that may fail.

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