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From: David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead•org>
To: Russ Allbery <rra@stanford•edu>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl•org>, git@vger•kernel.org
Subject: Re: Trying to use AUTHOR_DATE
Date: Sat, 30 Apr 2005 09:02:54 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1114848175.24014.35.camel@localhost.localdomain> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87zmvganq9.fsf@windlord.stanford.edu>

On Fri, 2005-04-29 at 21:32 -0700, Russ Allbery wrote:
> Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl•org> writes:
> > It also seems to do so in a particularly stupid way, and David
> > Woodhouses suggestion of just using mktime() on Jan 1st, 1970, seems to
> > be much simpler than what curl does.
> 
> Because of daylight savings time, this doesn't actually work.  I know from
> personal experience; this is the tactic that I took at first when writing
> INN's date parser and was educated by test failures.

Eww. The time functions we have to play with _really_ suck, don't they?
How about this...

Signed-off-by: David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead•org>

commit-tree.c: needs update
Index: commit-tree.c
===================================================================
--- c3aa1e6b53cc59d5fbe261f3f859584904ae3a63/commit-tree.c  (mode:100644 sha1:23de13361944ad7ba7c5320cf7cdd04e81842c60)
+++ uncommitted/commit-tree.c  (mode:100644)
@@ -213,10 +213,18 @@
 	if (*(skipfws(p + 5)))
 		return;
 
-	then = mktime(&tm); /* mktime appears to ignore the GMT offset, stupidly */
+	tm.tm_gmtoff = 0;
+	tm.tm_isdst = -1;
+
+	then = mktime(&tm);
 	if (then == -1)
 		return;
 
+	/* mktime always uses localtime, regardless of the tm_gmtoff field.
+	   It does, however, honour 'tm_isdst'; stupidly. Thankfully, it does
+	   at least tell us the offset it decided to use, so we can compensate
+	   for it */
+	then += tm.tm_gmtoff;
 	then -= offset;
 
 	snprintf(result, maxlen, "%lu %5.5s", then, p);

-- 
dwmw2


  reply	other threads:[~2005-04-30  7:59 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 38+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2005-04-30  3:44 Trying to use AUTHOR_DATE Luck, Tony
2005-04-30  3:49 ` H. Peter Anvin
2005-04-30  4:02   ` Linus Torvalds
2005-04-30  4:22     ` Linus Torvalds
2005-04-30  4:32       ` Russ Allbery
2005-04-30  8:02         ` David Woodhouse [this message]
2005-04-30 10:40           ` Edgar Toernig
2005-04-30 18:10             ` Russ Allbery
2005-04-30 20:32               ` Linus Torvalds
2005-04-30 21:59                 ` Juliusz Chroboczek
2005-04-30 22:54                 ` Edgar Toernig
2005-04-30 23:18                   ` Linus Torvalds
2005-05-01 16:46                   ` Linus Torvalds
2005-05-01 16:57                     ` Randy.Dunlap
2005-05-01 17:23                     ` Edgar Toernig
2005-04-30  5:43       ` Junio C Hamano
2005-04-30 10:53       ` Edgar Toernig
2005-04-30 11:13         ` David Woodhouse
2005-04-30 12:08           ` Kay Sievers
2005-04-30 12:13             ` David Woodhouse
2005-04-30 12:49           ` Edgar Toernig
2005-04-30 12:59             ` David Woodhouse
2005-04-30 13:22               ` Edgar Toernig
2005-05-02 22:10               ` Krzysztof Halasa
2005-05-02 22:26                 ` H. Peter Anvin
2005-05-02 23:30                   ` Krzysztof Halasa
2005-05-02 23:32                     ` H. Peter Anvin
2005-05-03  0:30                       ` Krzysztof Halasa
2005-05-03  0:38                         ` H. Peter Anvin
2005-04-30 23:14           ` H. Peter Anvin
2005-04-30  4:50 ` Edgar Toernig
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2005-04-30  5:28 Luck, Tony
2005-04-30 23:14 ` H. Peter Anvin
2005-04-29 23:14 tony.luck
2005-04-29 23:35 ` H. Peter Anvin
2005-04-30  0:21   ` tony.luck
2005-04-30  3:23     ` Edgar Toernig
2005-04-30  3:47       ` H. Peter Anvin

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