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0000879 | [1003.1(2013)/Issue7+TC1] System Interfaces | Editorial | Enhancement Request | 2014-10-03 11:44 | 2024-06-11 09:02 | ||
Reporter | ErikCederstrand | View Status | public | ||||
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Priority | normal | Resolution | Accepted As Marked | ||||
Status | Closed | ||||||
Name | Erik Cederstrand | ||||||
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Section | functions/strptime | ||||||
Page Number | 2041-2043 | ||||||
Line Number | 65182-65231 | ||||||
Interp Status | --- | ||||||
Final Accepted Text | Note: 0002545 | ||||||
Summary | 0000879: strptime is missing conversion specifiers described in strftime | ||||||
Description | strptime omits several useful conversion specifiers that are described in strftime, most notably the timezone specifiers z, Z and ISO year, week and weekday specifiers G, V and u. Equivalent date calculations cannot be performed using any of the other specifiers specified in strptime. | ||||||
Desired Action |
At least Scandinavian countries use ISO weeks and ISO days extensively in everyday communication and planning. strptime should be able to interpret at least the G, V and u specifiers. It is not possible to unambiguously calculate the date from a year, ISO week number and weekday using specifiers Y, W/U and w, since some calendar (Y) years contain two weeks with week number 52. There are also edge cases around Sundays at the beginning and end of the year. Being able to provide a timezone along with the naive date input would also be useful, but I'm not sure if this should be implemented using the locale instead. |
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(0002509) rhansen (manager) 2014-12-19 06:45 edited on: 2015-01-08 17:01 |
This was discussed during today's teleconference and I have some questions:
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(0002521) rhansen (manager) 2015-01-08 19:12 |
For time zones and problematic cases, perhaps we can specify something along these lines (but this probably doesn't match the behavior of existing implementations):
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(0002525) martinr (reporter) 2015-01-15 15:49 edited on: 2015-01-15 16:03 |
These are my observations valid for Solaris 11.2:
strptime(3C) man page says: %G Week-based year, including the century [0000,9999]; leading zero is permitted but not required. %u Weekday as a decimal number [1,7], with 1 representing Monday. %U Week number of the year as a decimal number [0,53], with Sunday as the first day of the week; leading zero is permitted but not required. %V The ISO 8601 week number as a decimal number [01,53]. In the ISO 8601 week-based system, weeks begin on a Monday and week 1 of the year is the week that includes both January 4th and the first Thursday of the year. If the first Monday of January is the 2nd, 3rd, or 4th, the preceding days are part of the last week of the preceding year. %w Weekday as a decimal number [0,6], with 0 representing Sunday. %W Week number of the year as a decimal number [0,53], with Monday as the first day of the week; leading zero is permitted but not required. %z Offset from UTC in ISO 8601:2004 standard basic format (+hhmm or -hhmm), or no characters if no time zone is determinable. %Z Time zone name or no characters if no time zone exists. For %z and %Z the implementation just checks ranges. It does not update struct tm. For %Z it updates f_isdst in tm. Questions: Q: What do implementations do with %z and %Z? Do all implementations that support these specifiers also have time zone members in struct tm? Do they parse the time zone in the input string but ignore the value? Do they convert the resulting time to UTC or the system's time zone? A: There is no timezone member in struct tm. The value is ignored. Q: What do implementations do when there is an ambiguity? For example, if the input is "2012" and the format string is "%G", what do implementations put in the tm_year member? Or does strptime() return NULL? A: If an ambiguity is detected there is NULL on the return of the strptime(). Q: What goes in the struct tm members if the format specifier and input doesn't provide enough information to unambiguously determine the time value? For example, if format is "%G %m" and the input is "2014 1" then tm_year must be 114, but if the input is "2014 12" then tm_year might be 114 or it might be 115. A: strptime("2014 1", "%G %m", t) produces "Sun Jan 00 00:00:00 2014", strptime("2014 12", "%G %m", t) produces "Sun Dec 00 00:00:00 2014". Q: What happens if the input is nonsensical but struct tm supports it? e.g., format is "%Y-%m-%d %u" and input is "2014-12-18 1" A: As you expect the result is "Mon Dec 18 00:00:00 2014" Q: What happens if the input is nonsensical but struct tm doesn't support it? e.g., format is "%G %V" and input is "2014 53" A: There is "Sun Dec 35 00:00:00 2014" on the output. If the input is "2014 54" there is NULL on the output. |
(0002526) joerg (reporter) 2015-01-21 14:53 edited on: 2015-02-12 17:48 |
A comment to Note: 0002525: %Z is not ignored on Solaris, %Z rather controls how/whether tm_isdst is updated. %z causes an abort with return (NULL) in OpenSolaris (S11 Build 147). %G also causes a return (NULL). %V " %u " So ignoring %z %G %V %u seems to have been added later by Oracle. |
(0002533) ajosey (manager) 2015-01-30 11:49 |
This was discussed on the 29 January 2015 call, and there was general agreement with the current approach in OpenSolaris. An action was assigned. |
(0002536) martinr (reporter) 2015-02-05 15:12 edited on: 2015-02-12 17:47 |
This is an additional information to Note: 0002525 how strptime() on Solaris 11 Update 2 behaves. Error condition is signaled by NULL return code. Error cases: %G Input differs from value stored during current strptime call. %u Input is not a number in range [1,7]. Input differs from value stored during current strptime call. %V Input is not a number in range [1,53]. Input differs from value stored during current strptime call. %z s is neither + nor -. (Expected format is shhmm.) hh is not a number in range [0,12]. mm is not a number in range [0,59]. hh is 12 and mm is greater than 0. %Z specification: If input equals to tzname[1] and tzname[0] and tzname[1] differs => tm->tm_isdst = 1. If input equals to tzname[0] => tm->tm_isdst = 0. |
(0002545) rhansen (manager) 2015-02-12 17:39 edited on: 2015-02-12 17:46 |
On page 2041 line 65181 (strptime() DESCRIPTION), after applying the change for 0000920, change:or if a field width is specified for any conversion specifier other than <tt>C</tt> or <tt>Y</tt>.to: or if a field width is specified for any conversion specifier other than <tt>C</tt>, <tt>F</tt>, <tt>G</tt>, <tt>Y</tt>, or <tt>Z</tt>.On page 2042 after line 65194 (strptime() DESCRIPTION) insert: <tt>F</tt> This specifier is similar to <tt>%Y-%m-%d</tt> where the characters up to the first <hyphen-minus> separator shall be converted as for %Y but with unlimited field width, the characters between the two <hyphen-minus> separators shall be converted as for %m, and the characters after the last <hyphen-minus> separator shall be converted as for %d. If a field width is specified, each of the %Y, %m, and %d conversions shall not convert any characters past the overall %F field width.On page 2042 after line 65212 insert: <tt>u</tt> The weekday as a decimal number [1,7], with 1 representing Monday.On page 2042 line 65214 add a sentence to the U conversion: The effect of this week number, if any, on the tm structure pointed to by tm is unspecified.On page 2042 after line 65214 insert: <tt>V</tt> The week number of the week-based year (see below) as a decimal number [01,53]. Leading zeros shall be permitted but shall not be required. The effect of this week number, if any, on the tm structure pointed to by tm is unspecified.On page 2042 line 65217 add a sentence to the W conversion: The effect of this week number, if any, on the tm structure pointed to by tm is unspecified.On page 2043 after line 65230 insert: <tt>z</tt> The offset from UTC in the ISO 8601:2004 standard format (<tt>+hhmm</tt> or <tt>-hhmm</tt>). For example, <tt>"-0430"</tt> means 4 hours 30 minutes behind UTC (west of Greenwich). The effect of this offset, if any, on the tm structure pointed to by tm is unspecified.On page 2043 after line 65252 insert: <tt>%OV</tt> The same as %V but using the locale's alternative numeric symbols.On page 2043 after line 65257 insert: <tt>%g</tt>, <tt>%G</tt>, and <tt>%V</tt> convert values according to the ISO 8601:2004 standard week-based year. In this system, weeks begin on a Monday and week 1 of the week-based year is the week that includes January 4th, which is also the week that includes the first Thursday of the year, and is also the first week that contains at least four days in the year. If the first Monday of January is the 2nd, 3rd, or 4th, the preceding days are part of the last week of the preceding week-based year (thus, the string <tt>"1998 53 6"</tt> with format specifier <tt>"%G %V %u"</tt> represents Saturday 2nd January 1999). If December 29th, 30th, or 31st is a Monday, it and any following days are part of week 1 of the following week-based year (thus, the string <tt>"1998 01 2"</tt> with format specifier <tt>"%G %V %u"</tt> represents Tuesday 30th December 1997). |
Issue History | |||
Date Modified | Username | Field | Change |
2014-10-03 11:44 | ErikCederstrand | New Issue | |
2014-10-03 11:44 | ErikCederstrand | Name | => Erik Cederstrand |
2014-10-03 11:44 | ErikCederstrand | Section | => functions/strptime |
2014-10-03 11:44 | ErikCederstrand | Page Number | => - |
2014-10-03 11:44 | ErikCederstrand | Line Number | => - |
2014-10-03 11:45 | ErikCederstrand | Issue Monitored: ErikCederstrand | |
2014-12-18 16:44 | rhansen | Page Number | - => 2041-2043 |
2014-12-18 16:44 | rhansen | Line Number | - => 65182-65231 |
2014-12-18 16:44 | rhansen | Interp Status | => --- |
2014-12-19 06:45 | rhansen | Note Added: 0002509 | |
2015-01-08 17:01 | rhansen | Note Edited: 0002509 | |
2015-01-08 19:12 | rhansen | Note Added: 0002521 | |
2015-01-15 15:49 | martinr | Note Added: 0002525 | |
2015-01-15 15:52 | martinr | Note Edited: 0002525 | |
2015-01-15 16:03 | martinr | Note Edited: 0002525 | |
2015-01-21 14:53 | joerg | Note Added: 0002526 | |
2015-01-30 11:49 | ajosey | Note Added: 0002533 | |
2015-02-05 15:12 | martinr | Note Added: 0002536 | |
2015-02-05 15:25 | martinr | Note Edited: 0002536 | |
2015-02-05 15:26 | martinr | Note Edited: 0002536 | |
2015-02-06 09:42 | geoffclare | Relationship added | related to 0000920 |
2015-02-12 17:39 | rhansen | Note Added: 0002545 | |
2015-02-12 17:43 | rhansen | Tag Attached: issue8 | |
2015-02-12 17:45 | rhansen | Final Accepted Text | => Note: 0002545 |
2015-02-12 17:45 | rhansen | Status | New => Resolved |
2015-02-12 17:45 | rhansen | Resolution | Open => Accepted As Marked |
2015-02-12 17:46 | rhansen | Note Edited: 0002545 | |
2015-02-12 17:47 | Don Cragun | Note Edited: 0002536 | |
2015-02-12 17:48 | Don Cragun | Note Edited: 0002526 | |
2020-04-03 15:02 | geoffclare | Status | Resolved => Applied |
2024-06-11 09:02 | agadmin | Status | Applied => Closed |
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