From: René Scharfe <l.s.r@web.de>
Date: Sun, 11 Jun 2017 17:36:47 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH] strbuf: let strbuf_addftime handle %z and %Z itself
Message-ID: <662a84da-8a66-3a37-d9d2-4ff8b5f996c3@web.de>
In-Reply-To: <20170607081729.6pz5yo2hmp4fwuas@sigill.intra.peff.net>

Am 07.06.2017 um 10:17 schrieb Jeff King:
> On Sat, Jun 03, 2017 at 12:40:34PM +0200, René Scharfe wrote:
>> Duplicates strbuf_expand to a certain extent, but not too badly, I
>> think.  Leaves the door open for letting strftime handle the local
>> case.
> 
> I guess you'd plan to do that like this in the caller:
> 
>    if (date->local)
> 	tz_name = NULL;
>    else
> 	tz_name = "";
> 
> and then your strftime() doesn't do any %z expansion when tz_name is
> NULL.

Yes, or you could look up a time zone name somewhere else -- except we
don't have a way to do that, at least for now.

> I was thinking that we would need to have it take the actual time_t, and
> then it would be able to do the tzset/localtime dance itself. But since
> I don't think we're planning to do that (if anything we'd just handle
> the normal localtime() case), the complication it would add to the
> interface isn't worth it.

A caller that really needs to do that can, and pass the result as a
string.  Not pretty, but at least it's a possibility.

René