Re: [PATCH 1/2] Add date formatting and parsing functions relative to a given time

[Alex Riesen <raa.lkml@gmail.com>]

On Sun, Aug 30, 2009 at 09:36, Jeff King<peff@peff.net> wrote:
> 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.

Yes, I just noticed that 200 was much too much, made the note
to fix it sometime and forgot the note in the final submission.

>> +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?

Been there, tried that. Didn't like it, because it didn't feel enough
approxidate (the original) anymore. Not even internally, because
of missing parse_date. My other attempts were guessdate and
approxidate_bottom_half (but only very shortly).

The "approximation", if you consider the functions arguments,
seems to me the closest to what the function _is_. OTOH,
maybe I should have used a verb...