Re: Fix approxidate() to understand more extended numbers

[Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>]

On Fri, 29 Sep 2006, Junio C Hamano wrote:
> Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org> writes:
> >
> > If you write
> >
> > 	12:30 am
> >
> > you really _should_ subtract 12, leaving you with 0:30. We don't. So we 
> > end up with a 24-hour time of 12:30, which is obviously _pm_, and wrong.
> >
> > And "12 am" or "12 pm" doesn't work at all.
> 
> Ah, that's what you meant.  My brain a bit too tired from the
> day job tonight X-<.

Here's a patch that should work. It just simplifies the whole thing to say 

	"hour = (hour % 12) + X"

where X is 12 for PM and 0 for AM.

It also fixes the "exact date" parsing, which didn't parse AM at all, and 
as such would do the same "12:30 AM" means "12:30 24-hour-format" bug. Of 
course, I hope that no exact dates use AM/PM anyway, but since we support 
the PM format, let's just get it right.

Not hugely tested, but I did test some of it, and it all _looks_ sane.

		Linus
---
diff --git a/date.c b/date.c
index db4c185..1825922 100644
--- a/date.c
+++ b/date.c
@@ -256,8 +256,12 @@ static int match_alpha(const char *date,
 	}
 
 	if (match_string(date, "PM") == 2) {
-		if (tm->tm_hour > 0 && tm->tm_hour < 12)
-			tm->tm_hour += 12;
+		tm->tm_hour = (tm->tm_hour % 12) + 12;
+		return 2;
+	}
+
+	if (match_string(date, "AM") == 2) {
+		tm->tm_hour = (tm->tm_hour % 12) + 0;
 		return 2;
 	}
 
@@ -600,28 +604,30 @@ static void date_tea(struct tm *tm, int 
 
 static void date_pm(struct tm *tm, int *num)
 {
-	int hour = *num;
+	int hour, n = *num;
 	*num = 0;
 
-	if (hour > 0 && hour < 12) {
-		tm->tm_hour = hour;
+	hour = tm->tm_hour;
+	if (n) {
+		hour = n;
 		tm->tm_min = 0;
 		tm->tm_sec = 0;
 	}
-	if (tm->tm_hour > 0 && tm->tm_hour < 12)
-		tm->tm_hour += 12;
+	tm->tm_hour = (hour % 12) + 12;
 }
 
 static void date_am(struct tm *tm, int *num)
 {
-	int hour = *num;
+	int hour, n = *num;
 	*num = 0;
 
-	if (hour > 0 && hour < 12) {
-		tm->tm_hour = hour;
+	hour = tm->tm_hour;
+	if (n) {
+		hour = n;
 		tm->tm_min = 0;
 		tm->tm_sec = 0;
 	}
+	tm->tm_hour = (hour % 12);
 }
 
 static const struct special {