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From: Assaf Gordon <assafgordon@gmail.com>
To: J William Piggott <elseifthen@gmx.com>
Cc: Karel Zak <kzak@redhat.com>, util-linux@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 3/3] hwclock: use gnulib's parse_datetime2 function
Date: Fri, 10 Feb 2017 21:38:00 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20170210213759.GD24787@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <621b8782-5b62-d07c-c81f-3cfcfbeef8ae@gmx.com>

Hello William,

two minor suggestions:

On Fri, Feb 10, 2017 at 04:08:20PM -0500, J William Piggott wrote:

>+	if (parse_datetime2 (&when, ctl.date_opt, NULL, ctl.debug))

1.
The 'flags' parameter in parse_datetime2 should be
considered as a bit-field, not a boolean.

It's true that in parse-datetime.h [1] the only
existing flag is the debug flag with a value of one,
but we made it so that other future flags are also possible
[2]. I believe 'ctl.debug' is treated like a boolean.

[1] 
http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/gnulib.git/tree/lib/parse-datetime.h
[2]
https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-gnulib/2016-08/msg00024.html


BTW,
Turning on the debug flag for parse_datetime2 will emit
the parsing steps to STDERR, which will look like so:
https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-gnulib/2016-08/msg00019.html
(might be good for util-linux, or might be an overkill).


2.
The latest version of 'parse_datetime2' function takes 6 parameters,
not just 4. The extra 2 are timezone specific values.
Added here:
http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/gnulib.git/commit/lib?id=4e6e16b3f43ce


regards,
 - assaf

  reply	other threads:[~2017-02-10 21:38 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2017-02-10 20:58 [PATCH 0/3] hwclock: remove date(1) J William Piggott
2017-02-10 21:03 ` [PATCH 1/3] gnulib: add source for gnulib parse-datetime mod J William Piggott
2017-02-10 21:05 ` [PATCH 2/3] build-sys: configure gnulib parse-datetime module J William Piggott
2017-02-10 21:08 ` [PATCH 3/3] hwclock: use gnulib's parse_datetime2 function J William Piggott
2017-02-10 21:38   ` Assaf Gordon [this message]
2017-02-11 16:49     ` J William Piggott
2017-02-11 11:24 ` [PATCH 0/3] hwclock: remove date(1) Sami Kerola
2017-02-11 16:49   ` J William Piggott
2017-02-13 13:04   ` Karel Zak
2017-02-13 14:42     ` J William Piggott
2017-02-14 16:29       ` Karel Zak

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