Corinna Vinschen wrote: > This doesn't look like a Cygwin specific problem.
Agree, but the RCSID "$Id: partime.c,v ... corinna ...$" encourages me to report the problem to this list first ;-) > I don't see this in > patch-2.5.9, nor in any patched version from Fedora Core or SuSE Linux. > Did you send this upstream? No. > Can you tell me exactly where the problem > happens which leads to this patch, please? partime.c: ... parse_pattern_letter (s, c, t) ... case 's': /* second [00-60 followed by optional fraction] */ { int frac; s = parse_decimal (s, 2, 0, 60, 1, &t->tm.tm_sec, &frac); t->tm.tm_sec += frac; } parse_decimal("59.50001", ...) returns tm_sec = 59 and frac=1 which results in tm_sec=60, but maketime({...; tm.tm_sec=60;...}, .) returns -1 always. Please try: $ gcc -DTEST -I. -o str2time maketime.c partime.c $ echo 2006-04-25 12:00:58.500000 | ./str2time `2006-04-25 12:00:58.500000' -> Tue Apr 25 12:00:58 2006 $ echo 2006-04-25 12:00:58.500001 | ./str2time `2006-04-25 12:00:58.500001' -> Tue Apr 25 12:00:59 2006 $ echo 2006-04-25 12:00:59.500000 | ./str2time `2006-04-25 12:00:59.500000' -> Tue Apr 25 12:00:59 2006 but: $ echo 2006-04-25 12:00:59.500001 | ./str2time `2006-04-25 12:00:59.500001' -> Thu Jan 1 00:59:59 1970 Same result for patch-2.5.9. Christian -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/