Re: [musl] strptime(s, "%Y-%j", &tm) does not update month and day

[Petr Pisar <petr.pisar@atlas.cz>]

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V Sat, May 11, 2024 at 05:28:54PM -0400, Rich Felker napsal(a):
> On Sat, May 11, 2024 at 05:24:59PM +0200, Petr Pisar wrote:
> > Hello,
> > 
> > When debugging a libisds test failure with musl-1.2.5
> > <https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=928107>, I found that musl's
> > strptime() does not handle "%Y-%j" properly. It accepts the format, it parses
> > the input string, it returns a correct pointer past the input string, but it
> > does not update tm.tm_mon and tm.tm_mday fileds of the third argument.
> 
> This is behaving as specified. Previously, the behavior was
> unspecified. POSIX has amended it for future issues as the resolution
> of https://austingroupbugs.net/view.php?id=1727 to read:
> 
>     The tm_yday member of the tm structure pointed to by tm shall be
>     set to this number minus 1.
> 
> strptime generally does not behave like mktime, doing
> normalizations/conversions.
> 
I see. I thought that strptime() does the normalization. Reading
mktime() specification reveals it has a side effect of normalizing tm_yday
from tm_year, tm_mon, and tm_mday.

However, I need the oposite and I cannot find any standard library function
for that. I will probaly resort to my own implementation with the drawback
of assumption that rules for leap years in Gregorian calendar won't change.

-- Petr

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