From: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Date: Tue, 25 Sep 2007 01:03:14 GMT
Subject: Re: Missing strptime
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0709250202130.28395@racer.site>
In-Reply-To: <alpine.LFD.0.999.0709241750510.3579@woody.linux-foundation.org>

Hi,

On Mon, 24 Sep 2007, Linus Torvalds wrote:

> On Tue, 25 Sep 2007, Johannes Schindelin wrote:
> > 
> > The only user for strptime is convert-objects, a program that should 
> > probably move to contrib/ anyway.  It was used once, a long time ago, 
> > to convert from the old format, which hashed the compressed contents, 
> > to the current format, which hashes the contents _before_ compression.
> 
> Actually, it also changes the date format, I think.

Yes, right, that was actually why strptime() was needed.

Ciao,
Dscho