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From: ericblake AT comcast DOT net (Eric Blake)
To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com
Subject: Re: strptime error when setting a different TimeZone with export TZ=UTC
Date: Fri, 24 Jun 2005 23:22:41 +0000
Message-Id: <062420052322.8818.42BC95C10004FF940000227222064244130A050E040D0C079D0A@comcast.net>

> 
> Actually tm_mon must be in the range [0,11].  You might have been
> thinking of tm_mday which unlike all the others is 1-based, [1,31]. 

You got me, and I even had the POSIX spec open in front of me when
I read the wrong line as to which field was 1-based. :)

 In
> this particular example though it's probably sufficient to initialize tm
> with { 0 } since both tm_mday and tm_mon should be filled in by strptime
> on success.  However, to truly be correct you'd have to check not only
> that strptime didn't return NULL, but that it parsed the entire format
> string and stopped at the expected point rather than failing early.

Isn't portable programming fun?

--
Eric Blake


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