Solaris has a broken strftime that produced garbage output for the test

1998-12-15  Havoc Pennington  <hp@pobox.com>

* gdate.c (g_date_prepare_to_parse): Solaris has a broken strftime
that produced garbage output for the test date I was using to
set up the parser. So use a different date that Solaris seems
to like.

diff --git a/ChangeLog b/ChangeLog
index 29cf2ba..05f3caf 100644 (file)
--- a/ChangeLog
+++ b/ChangeLog
@@ -1,3 +1,10 @@
+1998-12-15  Havoc Pennington  <hp@pobox.com>
+
+       * gdate.c (g_date_prepare_to_parse): Solaris has a broken strftime
+       that produced garbage output for the test date I was using to 
+       set up the parser. So use a different date that Solaris seems
+       to like.
+
 1998-12-15  Sebastian Wilhelmi  <wilhelmi@ira.uka.de>
 
        * configure.in: Dont complain, if --without-threads or

diff --git a/ChangeLog.pre-2-0 b/ChangeLog.pre-2-0
index 29cf2ba..05f3caf 100644 (file)
--- a/ChangeLog.pre-2-0
+++ b/ChangeLog.pre-2-0
@@ -1,3 +1,10 @@
+1998-12-15  Havoc Pennington  <hp@pobox.com>
+
+       * gdate.c (g_date_prepare_to_parse): Solaris has a broken strftime
+       that produced garbage output for the test date I was using to 
+       set up the parser. So use a different date that Solaris seems
+       to like.
+
 1998-12-15  Sebastian Wilhelmi  <wilhelmi@ira.uka.de>
 
        * configure.in: Dont complain, if --without-threads or

diff --git a/ChangeLog.pre-2-10 b/ChangeLog.pre-2-10
index 29cf2ba..05f3caf 100644 (file)
--- a/ChangeLog.pre-2-10
+++ b/ChangeLog.pre-2-10
@@ -1,3 +1,10 @@
+1998-12-15  Havoc Pennington  <hp@pobox.com>
+
+       * gdate.c (g_date_prepare_to_parse): Solaris has a broken strftime
+       that produced garbage output for the test date I was using to 
+       set up the parser. So use a different date that Solaris seems
+       to like.
+
 1998-12-15  Sebastian Wilhelmi  <wilhelmi@ira.uka.de>
 
        * configure.in: Dont complain, if --without-threads or

diff --git a/ChangeLog.pre-2-12 b/ChangeLog.pre-2-12
index 29cf2ba..05f3caf 100644 (file)
--- a/ChangeLog.pre-2-12
+++ b/ChangeLog.pre-2-12
@@ -1,3 +1,10 @@
+1998-12-15  Havoc Pennington  <hp@pobox.com>
+
+       * gdate.c (g_date_prepare_to_parse): Solaris has a broken strftime
+       that produced garbage output for the test date I was using to 
+       set up the parser. So use a different date that Solaris seems
+       to like.
+
 1998-12-15  Sebastian Wilhelmi  <wilhelmi@ira.uka.de>
 
        * configure.in: Dont complain, if --without-threads or

diff --git a/ChangeLog.pre-2-2 b/ChangeLog.pre-2-2
index 29cf2ba..05f3caf 100644 (file)
--- a/ChangeLog.pre-2-2
+++ b/ChangeLog.pre-2-2
@@ -1,3 +1,10 @@
+1998-12-15  Havoc Pennington  <hp@pobox.com>
+
+       * gdate.c (g_date_prepare_to_parse): Solaris has a broken strftime
+       that produced garbage output for the test date I was using to 
+       set up the parser. So use a different date that Solaris seems
+       to like.
+
 1998-12-15  Sebastian Wilhelmi  <wilhelmi@ira.uka.de>
 
        * configure.in: Dont complain, if --without-threads or

diff --git a/ChangeLog.pre-2-4 b/ChangeLog.pre-2-4
index 29cf2ba..05f3caf 100644 (file)
--- a/ChangeLog.pre-2-4
+++ b/ChangeLog.pre-2-4
@@ -1,3 +1,10 @@
+1998-12-15  Havoc Pennington  <hp@pobox.com>
+
+       * gdate.c (g_date_prepare_to_parse): Solaris has a broken strftime
+       that produced garbage output for the test date I was using to 
+       set up the parser. So use a different date that Solaris seems
+       to like.
+
 1998-12-15  Sebastian Wilhelmi  <wilhelmi@ira.uka.de>
 
        * configure.in: Dont complain, if --without-threads or

diff --git a/ChangeLog.pre-2-6 b/ChangeLog.pre-2-6
index 29cf2ba..05f3caf 100644 (file)
--- a/ChangeLog.pre-2-6
+++ b/ChangeLog.pre-2-6
@@ -1,3 +1,10 @@
+1998-12-15  Havoc Pennington  <hp@pobox.com>
+
+       * gdate.c (g_date_prepare_to_parse): Solaris has a broken strftime
+       that produced garbage output for the test date I was using to 
+       set up the parser. So use a different date that Solaris seems
+       to like.
+
 1998-12-15  Sebastian Wilhelmi  <wilhelmi@ira.uka.de>
 
        * configure.in: Dont complain, if --without-threads or

diff --git a/ChangeLog.pre-2-8 b/ChangeLog.pre-2-8
index 29cf2ba..05f3caf 100644 (file)
--- a/ChangeLog.pre-2-8
+++ b/ChangeLog.pre-2-8
@@ -1,3 +1,10 @@
+1998-12-15  Havoc Pennington  <hp@pobox.com>
+
+       * gdate.c (g_date_prepare_to_parse): Solaris has a broken strftime
+       that produced garbage output for the test date I was using to 
+       set up the parser. So use a different date that Solaris seems
+       to like.
+
 1998-12-15  Sebastian Wilhelmi  <wilhelmi@ira.uka.de>
 
        * configure.in: Dont complain, if --without-threads or

diff --git a/gdate.c b/gdate.c
index 7c60e23..6672436 100644 (file)
--- a/gdate.c
+++ b/gdate.c
@@ -566,7 +566,9 @@ g_date_prepare_to_parse (const gchar *str, GDateParseTokens *pt)
       
       /* Determine DMY order */
       
-      g_date_set_dmy (&d, 4, 7, 1776); /* had to pick a random day */
+      /* had to pick a random day - don't change this, some strftimes
+       * are broken on some days, and this one is good so far. */
+      g_date_set_dmy (&d, 4, 7, 1976);
       
       g_date_strftime (buf, 127, "%x", &d);
       
@@ -585,7 +587,7 @@ g_date_prepare_to_parse (const gchar *str, GDateParseTokens *pt)
               break;
             case 76:
               using_twodigit_years = TRUE; /* FALL THRU */
-            case 1776:
+            case 1976:
               dmy_order[i] = G_DATE_YEAR;
               break;
             default:

diff --git a/glib/gdate.c b/glib/gdate.c
index 7c60e23..6672436 100644 (file)
--- a/glib/gdate.c
+++ b/glib/gdate.c
@@ -566,7 +566,9 @@ g_date_prepare_to_parse (const gchar *str, GDateParseTokens *pt)
       
       /* Determine DMY order */
       
-      g_date_set_dmy (&d, 4, 7, 1776); /* had to pick a random day */
+      /* had to pick a random day - don't change this, some strftimes
+       * are broken on some days, and this one is good so far. */
+      g_date_set_dmy (&d, 4, 7, 1976);
       
       g_date_strftime (buf, 127, "%x", &d);
       
@@ -585,7 +587,7 @@ g_date_prepare_to_parse (const gchar *str, GDateParseTokens *pt)
               break;
             case 76:
               using_twodigit_years = TRUE; /* FALL THRU */
-            case 1776:
+            case 1976:
               dmy_order[i] = G_DATE_YEAR;
               break;
             default: