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
next 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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