Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@cygwin.com X-Authentication-Warning: denzel.in: rtroy owned process doing -bs Date: Mon, 13 Jan 2003 17:46:20 -0800 (PST) From: Richard Troy X-X-Sender: To: Subject: GCC bug with strftime Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Hi All, It's been about eight months since I last posted to this list - hope everyone is doing well... I recently discovered a bug in strftime(). I downloaded a very recent copy of cygwin and tried again, but it's still there. So, I'd like to report it. I sent mail to the gcc-bugs list but nobody there seems to care, so I thought I'd mention it here. The problem is that this call fails to return an hour: strftime(IT,key,"%m/%d/%y %l:%M %p", brokentime); The l% is supposed to represent a _space_ padded hour, as documented here: http://www.gnu.org/manual/glibc-2.0.6/html_chapter/libc_17.html#SEC302 I wrote a test program to illustrate the problem - call it a "bug script:" $ ./strftime This program illustrates a bug with strftime as it fails to return the hour. We are trying to use these flags: '%m/%d/%y %l:%M %p' strftime returned: 01/09/03 :26 PM The proper result: 01/09/03 3:26 PM $ My workaround (in the bug script) gets the hour as two digits and then tosses a leading zero... What a pain. -shrug- I don't know how to check what version of the library I have, but I have the following gcc compilers installed (as reported by cygcheck -s): gcc 3.2-3 gcc-mingw 20020817-4 gcc2 2.95.3-10 Please direct me on how I can get this information to someone who knows what to do with it! Thanks much, Richard -- Richard Troy, Chief Scientist Science Tools Corporation rtroy@ScienceTools.com, 510-567-9957, http://ScienceTools.com/ -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Bug reporting: http://cygwin.com/bugs.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/