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[PATCH v2 1/2] date.c: skip fractional second part of ISO-8601

From
Đoàn Trần Công Danh <congdanhqx@gmail.com>
Date
Apr 15, 2020, 03:31 UTC
Message-ID
<03f3e9968bc29b758f2dd32434c9e8d19f624fdd.1586921235.git.congdanhqx@gmail.com>
In-Reply-To
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git-commit(1) says ISO-8601 is one of our supported date format.

ISO-8601 allows timestamps to have a fractional number of seconds. We represent time only in terms of whole seconds, so we never bothered parsing fractional seconds. However, it's better for us to parse and throw away the fractional part than to refuse to parse the timestamp at all.

And refusing parsing fractional second part may confuse the parse to think fractional and timezone as day and month in this example:

	2008-02-14 20:30:45.019-04:00
Reported-by: Brian M. Carlson <sandals@crustytoothpaste.net>
Signed-off-by: Đoàn Trần Công Danh <congdanhqx@gmail.com>
---
 Documentation/date-formats.txt | 2 +-
 date.c                         | 2 ++
 t/t0006-date.sh                | 2 ++
 3 files changed, 5 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff --git a/Documentation/date-formats.txt b/Documentation/date-formats.txt
index 6926e0a4c8..6f69ba2ddd 100644
--- a/Documentation/date-formats.txt
+++ b/Documentation/date-formats.txt
@@ -20,7 +20,7 @@ RFC 2822::
 ISO 8601::
 	Time and date specified by the ISO 8601 standard, for example
 	`2005-04-07T22:13:13`. The parser accepts a space instead of the
-	`T` character as well.
+	`T` character as well. The fractional part will be ignored.
 +
 NOTE: In addition, the date part is accepted in the following formats:
 `YYYY.MM.DD`, `MM/DD/YYYY` and `DD.MM.YYYY`.
diff --git a/date.c b/date.c
index b0d9a8421d..2f37397beb 100644
--- a/date.c
+++ b/date.c
@@ -556,6 +556,8 @@ static int match_multi_number(timestamp_t num, char c, const char *date,
 	case ':':
 		if (num3 < 0)
 			num3 = 0;
+		else if (*end == '.' && isdigit(end[1]))
+			strtol(end + 1, &end, 10);
 		if (num < 25 && num2 >= 0 && num2 < 60 && num3 >= 0 && num3 <= 60) {
 			tm->tm_hour = num;
 			tm->tm_min = num2;
diff --git a/t/t0006-date.sh b/t/t0006-date.sh
index d9fcc829a9..d582dea5c5 100755
--- a/t/t0006-date.sh
+++ b/t/t0006-date.sh
@@ -81,6 +81,8 @@ check_parse 2008-02 bad
 check_parse 2008-02-14 bad
 check_parse '2008-02-14 20:30:45' '2008-02-14 20:30:45 +0000'
 check_parse '2008-02-14 20:30:45 -0500' '2008-02-14 20:30:45 -0500'
+check_parse '2008.02.14 20:30:45 -0500' '2008-02-14 20:30:45 -0500'
+check_parse '2008-02-14 20:30:45.019-04:00' '2008-02-14 20:30:45 -0400'
 check_parse '2008-02-14 20:30:45 -0015' '2008-02-14 20:30:45 -0015'
 check_parse '2008-02-14 20:30:45 -5' '2008-02-14 20:30:45 +0000'
 check_parse '2008-02-14 20:30:45 -5:' '2008-02-14 20:30:45 +0000'
-- 
2.26.0.485.g42af89717d
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Message 18 of 49 in “Mishandling of fractional seconds in ISO 8601 format”
  1. brian m. carlsonApr 14, 2020
  2. 0/2 More ISO-8601 supportĐoàn Trần Công Danh, Apr 14, 2020
  3. 1/2 date.c: allow fractional second part of ISO-8601Đoàn Trần Công Danh, Apr 14, 2020
  4. Jeff KingApr 14, 2020
  5. Danh DoanApr 15, 2020
  6. Jeff KingApr 14, 2020
  7. brian m. carlsonApr 14, 2020
  8. Danh DoanApr 15, 2020
  9. 2/2 date.c: allow compact version of ISO-8601 datetimeĐoàn Trần Công Danh, Apr 14, 2020
  10. Jeff KingApr 14, 2020
  11. Danh DoanApr 15, 2020
  12. Junio C HamanoApr 15, 2020
  13. Jeff KingApr 15, 2020
  14. Junio C HamanoApr 15, 2020
  15. Danh DoanApr 16, 2020
  16. brian m. carlsonApr 14, 2020
  17. 0/2 More ISO-8601 supportĐoàn Trần Công Danh, Apr 15, 2020
  18. 1/2 date.c: skip fractional second part of ISO-8601Đoàn Trần Công Danh, Apr 15, 2020
  19. Torsten BögershausenApr 15, 2020
  20. Danh DoanApr 16, 2020
  21. 2/2 date.c: allow compact version of ISO-8601 datetimeĐoàn Trần Công Danh, Apr 15, 2020
  22. 0/2 More ISO-8601 supportĐoàn Trần Công Danh, Apr 22, 2020
  23. 1/2 date.c: skip fractional second part of ISO-8601Đoàn Trần Công Danh, Apr 22, 2020
  24. Junio C HamanoApr 22, 2020
  25. Danh DoanApr 23, 2020
  26. Junio C HamanoApr 23, 2020
  27. Philip OakleyApr 23, 2020
  28. Danh DoanApr 24, 2020
  29. Junio C HamanoApr 24, 2020
  30. Philip OakleyApr 24, 2020
  31. Philip OakleyApr 24, 2020
  32. 2/2 date.c: allow compact version of ISO-8601 datetimeĐoàn Trần Công Danh, Apr 22, 2020
  33. Junio C HamanoApr 22, 2020
  34. Danh DoanApr 23, 2020
  35. 0/4 More ISO-8601 supportĐoàn Trần Công Danh, Apr 23, 2020
  36. 1/4 date.c: s/is_date/set_date/Đoàn Trần Công Danh, Apr 23, 2020
  37. Junio C HamanoApr 23, 2020
  38. 2/4 date.c: validate and set time in a helper functionĐoàn Trần Công Danh, Apr 23, 2020
  39. Junio C HamanoApr 23, 2020
  40. Danh DoanApr 24, 2020
  41. Junio C HamanoApr 24, 2020
  42. 3/4 date.c: skip fractional second part of ISO-8601Đoàn Trần Công Danh, Apr 23, 2020
  43. Junio C HamanoApr 23, 2020
  44. 4/4 date.c: allow compact version of ISO-8601 datetimeĐoàn Trần Công Danh, Apr 23, 2020
  45. 0/4 More ISO-8601 supportĐoàn Trần Công Danh, Apr 24, 2020
  46. 1/4 date.c: s/is_date/set_date/Đoàn Trần Công Danh, Apr 24, 2020
  47. 2/4 date.c: validate and set time in a helper functionĐoàn Trần Công Danh, Apr 24, 2020
  48. 3/4 date.c: skip fractional second part of ISO-8601Đoàn Trần Công Danh, Apr 24, 2020
  49. 4/4 date.c: allow compact version of ISO-8601 datetimeĐoàn Trần Công Danh, Apr 24, 2020

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