Re: Defect in XSH asctime()

[Larry Dwyer <yyyyyyyyyyy@xxxxxx>]

Is there such a thing as year 0?  I thought the calendar starts with year 1.

                Cheers,
                Larry

At 11:19 PM 12/13/2003, Paul Eggert wrote:
> At Fri, 12 Dec 2003 02:17:59 GMT, yyyyyyyyyyyyyyy@xxxxxxx writes:
>
> >    (see <time.h>), and the calculated year does not exceed four digits:
> >
> > page 121 line 4428 section asctime() objection
> >   After line 4428, add:
> >    Otherwise, if any of the fields of the tm structure pointed to by
> >    timeptr contain values that are outside the normal ranges, asctime()
> >    behavior is undefined.  If the calculated year exceeds four digits,
>
> The proposed rewording addresses only the issue where the calculated
> year exceeds 9999.  The specification also address the issue where the
> calculated year is negative.  So I would change "the calculated year
> does not exceed four digits" to "the calculated year is in the range 0
> through 9999 inclusive", and similarly for the other (negated)
> occurrence of the wording.