This structure is not part of POSIX. According to POSIX, gettimeofday()
has the following prototype:
int gettimeofday(struct timeval *restrict tp, void *restrict tzp);
Also, POSIX states that gettimeofday() shall return 0 (as long as tzp is
not used). Remove dead error handling code. Also use NULL for a
nul-pointer instead of integer 0.
While there, change all pieces of code that only use tv_sec to use
time(3), as this provides less overhead.
in the comment applies to a decision that needs to be made in relation
to the year 2000.
In fact, that statement probably should be changed to be
more generic (getting the year from the current time perhaps). Otherwise,
starting in 2069 two digit year conversions in date(1) will start assuming
1900 instead of 2000. hehe.
o Old-style K&R declarations have been converted to new C89 style
o register has been removed
o prototype for main() has been removed (gcc3 makes it an error)
o int main(int argc, char *argv[]) is the preferred main definition.
o Attempt to not break style(9) conformance for declarations more than
they already are.
Approved by: arch@, new style(9)
option already supported octal. Add a comment to the -r option
in the man page so it's a bit more specific.
Discrepancy brought to my attention by: sasdrq@unx.sas.com
Approved by: jkh
date is launched with the "u" argument. It now operates in the documented
manner.
Fix typo in date man page.
Submitted by: David McNett <nugget@slacker.com>
from the source attributed below. In particular, this removes a goto
inside a switch and replaces those horrendous ATOI macros with
something acceptable.
More clean-ups to come.
PR: bin/14151
Reported by: Christian Weisgerber <naddy@mips.rhein-neckar.de>
Obtained from: NetBSD
add a -j flag that tells date not to try to set the date. This allows you
to use date as a userland interface to strptime.
example:
TZ=GMT date -j -f "%a, %d %b %Y %T %Z" "Sun, 08 Nov 1998 02:22:20 GMT" +%s
which is the standard format for Last-modified headers in HTTP requests.
only one to respond: eivind
This will make a number of things easier in the future, as well as (finally!)
avoiding the Id-smashing problem which has plagued developers for so long.
Boy, I'm glad we're not using sup anymore. This update would have been
insane otherwise.
Fix several bugs involving the obsolescent -d and -t options:
-d 0 and -t 0 were ignored
-t -600 was a usage error
-d 'atoi is not suitable for parsing args' and -t duh were not usage errors
Change some error messages to say which call to settimeofday failed.
Restore casts of NULL in function calls.
Finish conversion to using err() instead of perror().
