dave@lsuc.uucp (David Sherman) (04/28/88)
We have getdate(3) installed in libc.a and use it for various
applications beyond netnews. According to getdate.y, it's
version 2.16, 9/24/87.
I just discovered that it is WRONG when parsing ctime(3) output.
If you feed "Wed Apr 27 12:09:03 1988" to getdate, it interprets
it as a number that, when output through ctime(3), produces:
"Tue Apr 26 11:41:03 1988".
I've reverted to an older getdate I had lying around, version 2.5
(Bellovin 3/3/83), and it works fine. But the new one has some
enhancements I like. Does anyone know what the problem is?
This machine is a Perkin-Elmer 3220 running v7, by the way.
David Sherman
The Law Society of Upper Canada
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In System V Release 4.0, at least for the Amiga version "/usr/include/time.h" contains a declaration for "getdate()" which is a normal part of the library as far as I can tell. Of course it returns a "struct tm", has different args, etc. The real problem is that "time.h" is included in the source for "getdate.y", which then gives a compile-time error about redeclaration of getdate, sigh I'm sure there's a magic bullet, please somebobdy tell me there is one and what it is... Thanks, -- Bruce Becker Toronto, Ont. Internet: news@becker.UUCP UUCP: ...!utai!mnetor!becker!news "'Comefrom' considered useful" - the Anti-Dijkstra