On May 11 16:52, Peter Rosin wrote:
> Hello!
>
> The following STC hints at a problem in strptime:
>
> -----------------------8<----------------------------
> #include <stdio.h>
> #include <time.h>
>
> int
> main(void)
> {
> /* seed tm with some garbage */
> struct tm tm = {
> 0, 0, 0, /* s m h */
> 0, 0, 0, /* d m y */
> 290774, 2280577, 81
> };
> const char date[] = "2011-05-11 14:06:11";
>
> if (!strptime(date, "%Y - %m - %d %T", &tm)) {
> fprintf(stderr, "strptime error\n");
> return 1;
> }
>
> printf("%s", asctime(&tm));
> printf("tm_yday %d\n", tm.tm_yday);
> printf("tm_wday %d\n", tm.tm_wday);
> printf("tm_isdst %d\n", tm.tm_isdst);
> return 0;
> }
> -----------------------8<----------------------------
>
> I get this output with Cygwin 1.7.9-1:
> May 11 14:06:11 2011
> tm_yday 2280577
> tm_wday 290774
> tm_isdst 81
>
> I expect:
> Wed May 11 14:06:11 2011
> tm_yday 130
> tm_wday 3
> tm_isdst whatever
>
> I get the expected output on the Linux host I tried (with tm_isdst=81),
> but not on Solaris 10.
>
> On Solaris 10 I get (for completeness):
> Sun May 11 14:06:11 2011
> tm_yday 0
> tm_wday 0
> tm_isdst 0
>
> Opengroup has this to say about only filling in some fields:
>
> "It is unspecified whether multiple calls to strptime()
> using the same tm structure will update the current
> contents of the structure or overwrite all contents of
> the structure. Conforming applications should make a
> single call to strptime() with a format and all data
> needed to completely specify the date and time being
> converted."
>
> but I don't think it applies since indeed I do completely specify
> the date in my strptime call.
The Cygwin implementation of strptime is taken from NetBSD and enhanced
only in terms of support for the E and O modifiers. The NetBSD and
OpenBSD versions also support a non-POSIX format specifier %u (day of
week, monday = 1). Other than that, the Cygwin strptime behaves exactly
as the BSD implementation. tm_wday is only set if you specify %a, %A or
%w. tm_yday is only set if you specify %j.
Despite the example in the strptime man page of POSIX.1-2008, POSIX does
not specify that strptime has to fill out tm fields which are not also
specified in the format string. You should better memset the tm
structure to 0 before calling strptime.
Corinna
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