Re: lib/55436: strptime does not process %G or %V

["James K. Lowden" <jklowden%schemamania.org@localhost>]

The following reply was made to PR lib/55436; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: "James K. Lowden" <jklowden%schemamania.org@localhost>
To: gnats-bugs%netbsd.org@localhost
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Subject: Re: lib/55436: strptime does not process %G or %V
Date: Wed, 1 Jul 2020 18:57:41 -0400

 On Wed,  1 Jul 2020 05:40:02 +0000 (UTC)
 Robert Elz <kre%munnari.OZ.AU@localhost> wrote:
 
 >  The point of all of these is not so much that they can be used to
 > parse a time string and extract info from them, but so the output
 > from strftime can be read, without error, by a suitably constructed
 > strptime specification. 
 
 Thank you very much for the explanation.  I'm astonshed by POSIX's
 rationale.  I don't see how skipping over metacharacter sequences
 without parsing them into the output helps anyone.  It's a recipe for
 error.  
 
 I note that on my system, no mention is made on the man page for
 strptime that %G and %V are accepted but inoperative.  
 
 I just spent two days working around this ... feature.  Would NetBSD be
 interested in a patch that makes the unspecified result useful?  
 
 --jkl