Re: Trying to use AUTHOR_DATE

[David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org>]

On Fri, 2005-04-29 at 21:32 -0700, Russ Allbery wrote:
> Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org> writes:
> > It also seems to do so in a particularly stupid way, and David
> > Woodhouses suggestion of just using mktime() on Jan 1st, 1970, seems to
> > be much simpler than what curl does.
> 
> Because of daylight savings time, this doesn't actually work.  I know from
> personal experience; this is the tactic that I took at first when writing
> INN's date parser and was educated by test failures.

Eww. The time functions we have to play with _really_ suck, don't they?
How about this...

Signed-off-by: David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org>

commit-tree.c: needs update
Index: commit-tree.c
===================================================================
--- c3aa1e6b53cc59d5fbe261f3f859584904ae3a63/commit-tree.c  (mode:100644 sha1:23de13361944ad7ba7c5320cf7cdd04e81842c60)
+++ uncommitted/commit-tree.c  (mode:100644)
@@ -213,10 +213,18 @@
 	if (*(skipfws(p + 5)))
 		return;
 
-	then = mktime(&tm); /* mktime appears to ignore the GMT offset, stupidly */
+	tm.tm_gmtoff = 0;
+	tm.tm_isdst = -1;
+
+	then = mktime(&tm);
 	if (then == -1)
 		return;
 
+	/* mktime always uses localtime, regardless of the tm_gmtoff field.
+	   It does, however, honour 'tm_isdst'; stupidly. Thankfully, it does
+	   at least tell us the offset it decided to use, so we can compensate
+	   for it */
+	then += tm.tm_gmtoff;
 	then -= offset;
 
 	snprintf(result, maxlen, "%lu %5.5s", then, p);

-- 
dwmw2