PR/58674 CVS commit: src/bin/date

["Robert Elz" <kre%netbsd.org@localhost>]

The following reply was made to PR lib/58674; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: "Robert Elz" <kre%netbsd.org@localhost>
To: gnats-bugs%gnats.NetBSD.org@localhost
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Subject: PR/58674 CVS commit: src/bin/date
Date: Tue, 17 Sep 2024 11:30:11 +0000

 Module Name:	src
 Committed By:	kre
 Date:		Tue Sep 17 11:30:11 UTC 2024
 
 Modified Files:
 	src/bin/date: date.c
 
 Log Message:
 PR lib/58674 (and I suspect, several others)
 
 Stop expecting strptime(3) in the tools build, it is an XSI
 function, and the tools builds do not set up the environment
 to expect XSI functions to be available.
 
 This means dropping support for the -f option in the tools date
 (which shouldn't matter, -f sets the format for the string used
 to set the time, which the tools date does not support), and
 open coding parsing for the -d option in the tools build.
 
 There should be no changes to the date(1) that is installed in /bin
 
 As a (minor) benefit, the tools -d support has become somewhat
 more flexible than the previous simple strptime() implementation
 allowed, and also does better error checking (no more Feb 30 etc).
 
 Note: no change to the usage message, if -f is passed to the tools
 date it will elicit a usage which says that -f is supported...
 (that's just laziness...)
 
 
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 cvs rdiff -u -r1.67 -r1.68 src/bin/date/date.c
 
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