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From: jacob@welshcomputing.com
To: musl@lists.openwall.com
Subject: strftime %Z returning empty string
Date: Thu, 31 Aug 2017 16:23:08 -0400 (EDT)	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <alpine.DEB.2.00.1708311558400.12602@ny1.eemta.org> (raw)

Hello,

I've been working through the Python test suite (2.7.13) on musl (1.1.16). 
There were a couple over-zealous tests involving errno, and locale tests 
that I'd expect to fail, but one set of failures I haven't yet been able 
to rule out as a musl bug. Symptom:

     >>> time.strftime('%Z')
     'GMT'
     >>> time.strftime('%Z', time.localtime())
     ''

The Python docs say these should be equivalent.

The implementation is about what you'd expect: if the second argument to 
time.strftime() is omitted, it passes the results of C localtime() 
directly to strftime(); otherwise it builds a "struct tm" by "memset"ing 
to '\0' then assigning the public fields (which of course don't include a 
time zone).

Bug? Bad assumption on their part? Nonsensical standard?

Thanks,
J. Welsh


             reply	other threads:[~2017-08-31 20:23 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2017-08-31 20:23 jacob [this message]
2017-08-31 20:44 ` A. Wilcox
2017-08-31 21:12   ` jacob
2017-08-31 21:56     ` Rich Felker
2017-09-01  8:57   ` Szabolcs Nagy
2017-09-04 23:27 ` musl's asctime catches Python bug jacob
2017-09-05  0:08   ` Rich Felker

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