From: Jason Green <news AT jgreen4 DOT fsnet DOT co DOT uk>
To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il>
Cc: djgpp AT delorie DOT com, ftilley AT azstarnet DOT com
Subject: Re: strftime: Need Help with Time Offsets
Date: Fri, 22 Dec 2000 12:53:08 +0000
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Eli Zaretskii <eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il> wrote:

> > Perhaps you could try my test program too, and tell if it does what
> > you expect it should?
> 
> I get similar results to what you reported:
> 
>     Fri, 22 Dec 2000 09:53:58 +0000 GMT
>     Fri, 22 Dec 2000 11:53:58 +7200 IST
>     Thu, 21 Dec 2000 21:19:58 -0000 TEST1
>     Fri, 22 Dec 2000 22:27:58 +38040 TEST2
> 
> I.e., the issue with negative offsets is reproducible.  But that's not
> what the original message was talking about, IIRC.  The results in the
> original message were completely bogus, which I couldn't reproduce.

I think the original message talked about the GMT offsets printed by
%z being wrong.  Athough the posted results appear to be cropped,
which doesn't help, and the expected results are not mentioned.

I don't know if Felix received the patch (because of a spam-blocked
reply address), so I don't know if or how the problem is fixed.

>  The DJGPP
> library is much older than glibc, and doesn't yet support C99; the
> lack of support for %z is a minor nuisance compared to some major new
> functionality that C99 warrants but DJGPP doesn't support.
> 
> Volunteers are welcome to work on adding C99 functionality to the
> library.

In respect of %z, what needs to be done to make strftime() compliant
with current standards?

> > Maybe you have a copy of the ANSI standard to check on this?
> 
> It isn't mentioned at all in ANSI C89, which is what DJGPP supports.
> And the info in Posix doesn't tell anything about the units, as you
> cite above.