From: Jeff King Date: Sun, 30 Aug 2009 07:36:19 GMT Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/2] Add date formatting and parsing functions relative to a given time Message-ID: <20090830073619.GA14217@coredump.intra.peff.net> In-Reply-To: <20090828210404.GA11867@blimp.localdomain> On Fri, Aug 28, 2009 at 11:04:04PM +0200, Alex Riesen wrote: > +const char *show_date_relative(unsigned long time, int tz, const struct timeval *now) > +{ > + static char timebuf[100 /* TODO: can be optimized */]; This was 200 in the original version. I doubt that it makes a difference, but I think in a refactoring patch I think it is best to simply reorganize and make no other changes. > +static unsigned long approximation(const char *date, const struct timeval *tv) I know it's static, but this is a terribly undescriptive function name. Approximation of what? Can we call it approxidate_internal or something? -Peff