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Re: [Patch] patch -Z not working if timestamp contains seconds >=59.5


On Tue, Apr 25, 2006 at 11:33:52PM +0200, Christian Franke wrote:
> Dave Korn wrote:
> >...
> >diff -rup patch-2.5.8-8.orig/partime.c patch-2.5.8-8/partime.c
> >--- patch-2.5.8-8.orig/partime.c	2002-12-15 21:37:32.001000000 +0100
> >+++ patch-2.5.8-8/partime.c	2006-04-25 12:14:59.797168500 +0200
> >@@ -753,6 +753,8 @@ parse_pattern_letter (s, c, t)
> > 	int frac;
> > 	s = parse_decimal (s, 2, 0, 60, 1, &t->tm.tm_sec, &frac);
> > 	t->tm.tm_sec += frac;
> >+	if (t->tm.tm_sec > 59)
> >+	  t->tm.tm_sec = 59;
> >       }
> >       break;
> > 
> >
> >  I'm not sure if rounding errors can be a good idea when makefiles might 
> >  be
> >involved.  Why isn't your code propagating the carry, i.e. setting tm_sec 
> >to
> >zero and incrmenting the minutes?
> 
> 
> ... and then propagate the carry to hours, to days, ...,
> finally handle leap years and invalid local times during DST change?
> 
> The patch simply changes rounding mode for a small interval from 
> round-to-nearest to round-down.
> This IMO does not add any new monotonicity issues.

If you thought about all that, maybe you also thought about leap seconds?
Isn't it valid to have 60 in the seconds field when a leap second is added?

Cheers,
Peter

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