date bug in zsh 3.0.5

date bug in zsh 3.0.5

[Bousfield Peter]

Hello,

The %W prompt variable does not seem to work correctly in zsh 3.0.5

We are running solaris 2.6 and have zsh 3.0.5.
Setting your prompt to %W, and then setting the date to after 1/1/2000 gives
incorrect output. eg:

Sun Microsystems Inc.   SunOS 5.6       Generic August 1997
[1] bousfipd@y2ktest1.y2k-sol:/ % sudo date 123123591999
Password:
Friday December 31 23:59:00 WST 1999
[2] bousfipd@y2ktest1.y2k-sol:/ % date
Friday December 31 23:59:03 WST 1999
[3] bousfipd@y2ktest1.y2k-sol:/ % export prompt=%W
12/31/99date
Friday December 31 23:59:12 WST 1999
12/31/99date
Saturday January  1 00:00:04 WST 2000
01/01/:0


The century is display as :0 not 00!

Thankyou for your time.

peter bousfield

Re: date bug in zsh 3.0.5

[Goran Larsson]

On 30 Dec, Bousfield Peter wrote:

>  The %W prompt variable does not seem to work correctly in zsh 3.0.5

>  The century is display as :0 not 00!

The century isn't displayed at all, the years within the century is.

To fix this edit Src/utils.c and replace this

            case 'y':
                *buf++ = '0' + tm->tm_year / 10;
                *buf++ = '0' + tm->tm_year % 10;
                break;

with this

            case 'y':
                *buf++ = '0' + ( tm->tm_year / 10 ) % 10;  /* Y2K fix */
                *buf++ = '0' + tm->tm_year % 10;
                break;

This bug is fixed in version 3.1.5.

-- 
 Goran Larsson            hoh@approve.se
 I was an atheist,        http://home.swipnet.se/hoh/
 until I found out I was God.