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2015-06-29introduce "format" date-modeLibravatar Jeff King1-1/+8
This feeds the format directly to strftime. Besides being a little more flexible, the main advantage is that your system strftime may know more about your locale's preferred format (e.g., how to spell the days of the week). Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2015-06-29convert "enum date_mode" into a structLibravatar Jeff King1-18/+25
In preparation for adding date modes that may carry extra information beyond the mode itself, this patch converts the date_mode enum into a struct. Most of the conversion is fairly straightforward; we pass the struct as a pointer and dereference the type field where necessary. Locations that declare a date_mode can use a "{}" constructor. However, the tricky case is where we use the enum labels as constants, like: show_date(t, tz, DATE_NORMAL); Ideally we could say: show_date(t, tz, &{ DATE_NORMAL }); but of course C does not allow that. Likewise, we cannot cast the constant to a struct, because we need to pass an actual address. Our options are basically: 1. Manually add a "struct date_mode d = { DATE_NORMAL }" definition to each caller, and pass "&d". This makes the callers uglier, because they sometimes do not even have their own scope (e.g., they are inside a switch statement). 2. Provide a pre-made global "date_normal" struct that can be passed by address. We'd also need "date_rfc2822", "date_iso8601", and so forth. But at least the ugliness is defined in one place. 3. Provide a wrapper that generates the correct struct on the fly. The big downside is that we end up pointing to a single global, which makes our wrapper non-reentrant. But show_date is already not reentrant, so it does not matter. This patch implements 3, along with a minor macro to keep the size of the callers sane. Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2015-05-05Merge branch 'jc/epochtime-wo-tz'Libravatar Junio C Hamano1-5/+9
"git commit --date=now" or anything that relies on approxidate lost the daylight-saving-time offset. * jc/epochtime-wo-tz: parse_date_basic(): let the system handle DST conversion parse_date_basic(): return early when given a bogus timestamp
2015-04-15parse_date_basic(): let the system handle DST conversionLibravatar Junio C Hamano1-2/+6
The function parses the input to compute the broken-down time in "struct tm", and the GMT timezone offset. If the timezone offset does not exist in the input, the broken-down time is turned into the number of seconds since epoch both in the current timezone and in GMT and the offset is computed as their difference. However, we forgot to make sure tm.tm_isdst is set to -1 (i.e. let the system figure out if DST is in effect in the current timezone when turning the broken-down time to the number of seconds since epoch); it is done so at the beginning of the function, but a call to match_digit() in the function can lead to a call to gmtime_r() to clobber the field. Reported-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Diagnosed-by: Eric Sunshine <sunshine@sunshineco.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2015-04-15parse_date_basic(): return early when given a bogus timestampLibravatar Junio C Hamano1-3/+3
When the input does not have GMT timezone offset, the code computes it by computing the local and GMT time for the given timestamp. But there is no point doing so if the given timestamp is known to be a bogus one. Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2015-01-07Merge branch 'jk/approxidate-avoid-y-d-m-over-future-dates'Libravatar Junio C Hamano1-9/+12
Traditionally we tried to avoid interpreting date strings given by the user as future dates, e.g. GIT_COMMITTER_DATE=2014-12-10 when used early November 2014 was taken as "October 12, 2014" because it is likely that a date in the future, December 10, is a mistake. Loosen this and do not tiebreak by future-ness of the date when (1) ISO-like format is used, and (2) the string can make sense interpreted as both y-m-d and y-d-m. * jk/approxidate-avoid-y-d-m-over-future-dates: approxidate: allow ISO-like dates far in the future pass TIME_DATE_NOW to approxidate future-check
2014-11-13approxidate: allow ISO-like dates far in the futureLibravatar Jeff King1-2/+2
When we are parsing approxidate strings and we find three numbers separate by one of ":/-.", we guess that it may be a date. We feed the numbers to match_multi_number, which checks whether it makes sense as a date in various orderings (e.g., dd/mm/yy or mm/dd/yy, etc). One of the checks we do is to see whether it is a date more than 10 days in the future. This was added in 38035cf (date parsing: be friendlier to our European friends., 2006-04-05), and lets us guess that if it is currently April 2014, then "10/03/2014" is probably March 10th, not October 3rd. This has a downside, though; if you want to be overly generous with your "--until" date specification, we may wrongly parse "2014-12-01" as "2014-01-12" (because the latter is an in-the-past date). If the year is a future year (i.e., both are future dates), it gets even weirder. Due to the vagaries of approxidate, months _after_ the current date (no matter the year) get flipped, but ones before do not. This patch drops the "in the future" check for dates of this form, letting us treat them always as yyyy-mm-dd, even if they are in the future. This does not affect the normal dd/mm/yyyy versus mm/dd/yyyy lookup, because this code path only kicks in when the first number is greater than 70 (i.e., it must be a year, and cannot be either a date or a month). The one possible casualty is that "yyyy-dd-mm" is less likely to be chosen over "yyyy-mm-dd". That's probably OK, though because: 1. The difference happens only when the date is in the future. Already we prefer yyyy-mm-dd for dates in the past. 2. It's unclear whether anybody even uses yyyy-dd-mm regularly. It does not appear in lists of common date formats in Wikipedia[1,2]. 3. Even if (2) is wrong, it is better to prefer ISO-like dates, as that is consistent with what we use elsewhere in git. [1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Date_and_time_representation_by_country [2] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Calendar_date Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2014-11-13pass TIME_DATE_NOW to approxidate future-checkLibravatar Jeff King1-7/+10
The approxidate functions accept an extra "now" parameter to avoid calling time() themselves. We use this in our test suite to make sure we have a consistent time for computing relative dates. However, deep in the bowels of approxidate, we also call time() to check whether possible dates are far in the future. Let's make sure that the "now" override makes it to that spot, too, so we can consistently test that feature. Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2014-09-19Merge branch 'jk/commit-author-parsing'Libravatar Junio C Hamano1-6/+7
Code clean-up. * jk/commit-author-parsing: determine_author_info(): copy getenv output determine_author_info(): reuse parsing functions date: use strbufs in date-formatting functions record_author_date(): use find_commit_header() record_author_date(): fix memory leak on malformed commit commit: provide a function to find a header in a buffer
2014-08-29pretty: provide a strict ISO 8601 date formatLibravatar Beat Bolli1-1/+13
Git's "ISO" date format does not really conform to the ISO 8601 standard due to small differences, and it cannot be parsed by ISO 8601-only parsers, e.g. those of XML toolchains. The output from "--date=iso" deviates from ISO 8601 in these ways: - a space instead of the `T` date/time delimiter - a space between time and time zone - no colon between hours and minutes of the time zone Add a strict ISO 8601 date format for displaying committer and author dates. Use the '%aI' and '%cI' format specifiers and add '--date=iso-strict' or '--date=iso8601-strict' date format names. See http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.version-control.git/255879 and http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.version-control.git/52414/focus=52585 for discussion. Signed-off-by: Beat Bolli <bbolli@ewanet.ch> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2014-08-27date: use strbufs in date-formatting functionsLibravatar Jeff King1-6/+7
Many of the date functions write into fixed-size buffers. This is a minor pain, as we have to take special precautions, and frequently end up copying the result into a strbuf or heap-allocated buffer anyway (for which we sometimes use strcpy!). Let's instead teach parse_date, datestamp, etc to write to a strbuf. The obvious downside is that we might need to perform a heap allocation where we otherwise would not need to. However, it turns out that the only two new allocations required are: 1. In test-date.c, where we don't care about efficiency. 2. In determine_author_info, which is not performance critical (and where the use of a strbuf will help later refactoring). Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2014-04-17i18n: fix uncatchable comments for translators in date.cLibravatar Jiang Xin1-1/+1
Comment for l10n translators can not be extracted by xgettext if it is not right above the l10n tag. Moving the comment right before the l10n tag will fix this issue. Reported-by: Brian Gesiak <modocache@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Jiang Xin <worldhello.net@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2014-03-14Merge branch 'jk/commit-dates-parsing-fix'Libravatar Junio C Hamano1-2/+21
Tighten codepaths that parse timestamps in commit objects. * jk/commit-dates-parsing-fix: show_ident_date: fix tz range check log: do not segfault on gmtime errors log: handle integer overflow in timestamps date: check date overflow against time_t fsck: report integer overflow in author timestamps t4212: test bogus timestamps with git-log
2014-02-24log: do not segfault on gmtime errorsLibravatar Jeff King1-2/+4
Many code paths assume that show_date and show_ident_date cannot return NULL. For the most part, we handle missing or corrupt timestamps by showing the epoch time t=0. However, we might still return NULL if gmtime rejects the time_t we feed it, resulting in a segfault. Let's catch this case and just format t=0. Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2014-02-24date: check date overflow against time_tLibravatar Jeff King1-0/+17
When we check whether a timestamp has overflowed, we check only against ULONG_MAX, meaning that strtoul has overflowed. However, we also feed these timestamps to system functions like gmtime, which expect a time_t. On many systems, time_t is actually smaller than "unsigned long" (e.g., because it is signed), and we would overflow when using these functions. We don't know the actual size or signedness of time_t, but we can easily check for truncation with a simple assignment. Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2013-10-30Merge branch 'jk/date-c-double-semicolon'Libravatar Junio C Hamano1-1/+1
* jk/date-c-double-semicolon: drop redundant semicolon in empty while
2013-10-24drop redundant semicolon in empty whileLibravatar Jeff King1-1/+1
The extra semi-colon is harmless, since we really do want the while loop to do nothing. But it does trigger a warning from clang. Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2013-05-29Merge branch 'jc/prune-all'Libravatar Junio C Hamano1-0/+22
We used the approxidate() parser for "--expire=<timestamp>" options of various commands, but it is better to treat --expire=all and --expire=now a bit more specially than using the current timestamp. Update "git gc" and "git reflog" with a new parsing function for expiry dates. * jc/prune-all: prune: introduce OPT_EXPIRY_DATE() and use it api-parse-options.txt: document "no-" for non-boolean options git-gc.txt, git-reflog.txt: document new expiry options date.c: add parse_expiry_date()
2013-04-17date.c: add parse_expiry_date()Libravatar Junio C Hamano1-0/+22
"git reflog --expire=all" tries to expire reflog entries up to the current second, because the approxidate() parser gives the current timestamp for anything it does not understand (and it does not know what time "all" means). When the user tells us to expire "all" (or set the expiration time to "now"), the user wants to remove all the reflog entries (no reflog entry should record future time). Just set it to ULONG_MAX and to let everything that is older that timestamp expire. While at it, allow "now" to be treated the same way for callers that parse expiry date timestamp with this function. Also use an error reporting version of approxidate() to report misspelled date. When the user says e.g. "--expire=mnoday" to delete entries two days or older on Wednesday, we wouldn't want the "unknown, default to now" logic to kick in. Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2013-02-25Fix time offset calculation in case of unsigned time_tLibravatar Mike Gorchak1-2/+8
Fix time offset calculation expression in case if time_t is unsigned. This code works fine for signed and unsigned time_t. Signed-off-by: Mike Gorchak <mike.gorchak.qnx@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2013-02-25date.c: fix unsigned time_t comparisonLibravatar Mike Gorchak1-1/+1
tm_to_time_t() returns (time_t)-1 when it sees an error. On platforms with unsigned time_t, this value will be larger than any valid timestamp and will break the "Is this older than 10 days in the future?" check. Signed-off-by: Mike Gorchak <mike.gorchak.qnx@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2012-07-22Merge branch 'jc/maint-filter-branch-epoch-date'Libravatar Junio C Hamano1-1/+1
In 1.7.9 era, we taught "git rebase" about the raw timestamp format but we did not teach the same trick to "filter-branch", which rolled a similar logic on its own. Because of this, "filter-branch" failed to rewrite commits with ancient timestamps. * jc/maint-filter-branch-epoch-date: t7003: add test to filter a branch with a commit at epoch date.c: Fix off by one error in object-header date parsing filter-branch: do not forget the '@' prefix to force git-timestamp
2012-07-12date.c: Fix off by one error in object-header date parsingLibravatar Junio C Hamano1-1/+1
It is perfectly OK for a valid decimal integer to begin with '9' but 116eb3a (parse_date(): allow ancient git-timestamp, 2012-02-02) did not express the range correctly. Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2012-04-24i18n: mark relative dates for translationLibravatar Jonathan Nieder1-39/+56
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy <pclouds@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2012-02-10Merge branch 'jc/parse-date-raw'Libravatar Junio C Hamano1-0/+30
* jc/parse-date-raw: parse_date(): '@' prefix forces git-timestamp parse_date(): allow ancient git-timestamp
2012-02-03parse_date(): '@' prefix forces git-timestampLibravatar Junio C Hamano1-1/+2
The only place that the issue this series addresses was observed where we read "cat-file commit" output and put it in GIT_AUTHOR_DATE in order to replay a commit with an ancient timestamp. With the previous patch alone, "git commit --date='20100917 +0900'" can be misinterpreted to mean an ancient timestamp, not September in year 2010. Guard this codepath by requring an extra '@' in front of the raw git timestamp on the parsing side. This of course needs to be compensated by updating get_author_ident_from_commit and the code for "git commit --amend" to prepend '@' to the string read from the existing commit in the GIT_AUTHOR_DATE environment variable. Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2012-02-03parse_date(): allow ancient git-timestampLibravatar Junio C Hamano1-0/+29
The date-time parser parses out a human-readble datestring piece by piece, so that it could even parse a string in a rather strange notation like 'noon november 11, 2005', but restricts itself from parsing strings in "<seconds since epoch> <timezone>" format only for reasonably new timestamps (like 1974 or newer) with 10 or more digits. This is to prevent a string like "20100917" from getting interpreted as seconds since epoch (we want to treat it as September 17, 2010 instead) while doing so. The same codepath is used to read back the timestamp that we have already recorded in the headers of commit and tag objects; because of this, such a commit with timestamp "0 +0000" cannot be rebased or amended very easily. Teach parse_date() codepath to special case a string of the form "<digits> +<4-digits>" to work this issue around, but require that there is no other cruft around the string when parsing a timestamp of this format for safety. Note that this has a slight backward incompatibility implications. If somebody writes "git commit --date='20100917 +0900'" and wants it to mean a timestamp in September 2010 in Japan, this change will break such a use case. Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2011-09-12date.c: Support iso8601 timezone formatsLibravatar Haitao Li1-11/+23
Timezone designators in the following formats are all valid according to ISO8601:2004, section 4.3.2: [+-]hh, [+-]hhmm, [+-]hh:mm but we have ignored the ones with colon so far. Signed-off-by: Haitao Li <lihaitao@gmail.com> Helped-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2011-04-20date: avoid "X years, 12 months" in relative datesLibravatar Michael J Gruber1-2/+3
When relative dates are more than about a year ago, we start writing them as "Y years, M months". At the point where we calculate Y and M, we have the time delta specified as a number of days. We calculate these integers as: Y = days / 365 M = (days % 365 + 15) / 30 This rounds days in the latter half of a month up to the nearest month, so that day 16 is "1 month" (or day 381 is "1 year, 1 month"). We don't round the year at all, though, meaning we can end up with "1 year, 12 months", which is silly; it should just be "2 years". Implement this differently with months of size onemonth = 365/12 so that totalmonths = (long)( (days + onemonth/2)/onemonth ) years = totalmonths / 12 months = totalmonths % 12 In order to do this without floats, we write the first formula as totalmonths = (days*12*2 + 365) / (365*2) Tests and inspiration by Jeff King. Helped-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net> Signed-off-by: Michael J Gruber <git@drmicha.warpmail.net> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2010-07-15Export parse_date_basic() to convert a date string to timestampLibravatar Jonathan Nieder1-8/+6
approxidate() is not appropriate for reading machine-written dates because it guesses instead of erroring out on malformed dates. parse_date() is less convenient since it returns its output as a string. So export the underlying function that writes a timestamp. While at it, change the return value to match the usual convention: return 0 for success and -1 for failure. Signed-off-by: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com> Acked-by: Ramkumar Ramachandra <artagnon@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Ramkumar Ramachandra <artagnon@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2010-07-05parse_date: fix signedness in timezone calculationLibravatar Jeff King1-1/+1
When no timezone is specified, we deduce the offset by subtracting the result of mktime from our calculated timestamp. However, our timestamp is stored as an unsigned integer, meaning we perform the subtraction as unsigned. For a negative offset, this means we wrap to a very high number, and our numeric timezone is in the millions of hours. You can see this bug by doing: $ TZ=EST \ GIT_AUTHOR_DATE='2010-06-01 10:00' \ git commit -a -m foo $ git cat-file -p HEAD | grep author author Jeff King <peff@peff.net> 1275404416 +119304128 Instead, we should perform this subtraction as a time_t, the same type that mktime returns. Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2010-06-21Merge branch 'rr/parse-date-refactor'Libravatar Junio C Hamano1-19/+37
* rr/parse-date-refactor: Refactor parse_date for approxidate functions
2010-06-07Refactor parse_date for approxidate functionsLibravatar Ramkumar Ramachandra1-19/+37
approxidate_relative and approxidate_careful both use parse_date to dump the timestamp to a character buffer and parse it back into a long unsigned using strtoul(). Avoid doing this by creating a new parse_date_toffset method. Noticed-by: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Ramkumar Ramachandra <artagnon@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2010-05-18Add "Z" as an alias for the timezone "UTC"Libravatar Marcus Comstedt1-1/+2
The name "Z" for the UTC timezone is required to properly parse ISO 8601 timestamps. Add it to the list of recognized timezones. Because timezone names can be shorter than 3 letters, loosen the restriction in match_alpha() that used to require at least 3 letters to match to allow a short timezone name as long as it matches exactly. Prior to the introduction of the "Z" zone, this already affected the timezone "NT" (Nome). Signed-off-by: Marcus Comstedt <marcus@mc.pp.se> Reviewed-by: Jay Soffian <jaysoffian@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2010-01-27Merge branch 'jc/maint-reflog-bad-timestamp'Libravatar Junio C Hamano1-8/+35
* jc/maint-reflog-bad-timestamp: t0101: use a fixed timestamp when searching in the reflog Update @{bogus.timestamp} fix not to die() approxidate_careful() reports errorneous date string
2010-01-26approxidate_careful() reports errorneous date stringLibravatar Junio C Hamano1-8/+35
For a long time, the time based reflog syntax (e.g. master@{yesterday}) didn't complain when the "human readable" timestamp was misspelled, as the underlying mechanism tried to be as lenient as possible. The funny thing was that parsing of "@{now}" even relied on the fact that anything not recognized by the machinery returned the current timestamp. Introduce approxidate_careful() that takes an optional pointer to an integer, that gets assigned 1 when the input does not make sense as a timestamp. As I am too lazy to fix all the callers that use approxidate(), most of the callers do not take advantage of the error checking, but convert the code to parse reflog to use it as a demonstration. Tests are mostly from Jeff King. Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2010-01-20date.c: mark file-local function staticLibravatar Junio C Hamano1-1/+1
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2009-10-03Fix '--relative-date'Libravatar Johan Sageryd1-1/+1
This fixes '--relative-date' so that it does not give '0 year, 12 months', for the interval 360 <= diff < 365. Signed-off-by: Johan Sageryd <j416@1616.se> Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
2009-08-30fix approxidate parsing of relative months and yearsLibravatar Jeff King1-1/+4
These were broken by b5373e9. The problem is that the code marks the month and year with "-1" for "we don't know it yet", but the month and year code paths were not adjusted to fill in the current time before doing their calculations (whereas other units follow a different code path and are fine). Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2009-08-30Add date formatting and parsing functions relative to a given timeLibravatar Alex Riesen1-63/+87
The main purpose is to allow predictable testing of the code. Signed-off-by: Alex Riesen <raa.lkml@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2009-08-22Further 'approxidate' improvementsLibravatar Linus Torvalds1-5/+27
The previous patch to improve approxidate got us to the point that a lot of the remaining annoyances were due to the 'strict' date handling running first, and deciding that it got a good enough date that the approximate date routines were never even invoked. For example, using a date string like 6AM, June 7, 2009 the strict date logic would be perfectly happy with the "June 7, 2009" part, and ignore the 6AM part that it didn't understand - resulting in the information getting dropped on the floor: 6AM, June 7, 2009 -> Sat Jun 6 00:00:00 2009 and the date being calculated as if it was midnight, and the '6AM' having confused the date routines into thinking about '6 June' rather than 'June 7' at 6AM (ie notice how the _day_ was wrong due to this, not just the time). So this makes the strict date routines a bit stricter, and requires that not just the date, but also the time, has actually been parsed. With that fix, and trivial extension of the approxidate routines, git now properly parses the date as 6AM, June 7, 2009 -> Sun Jun 7 06:00:00 2009 without dropping the fuzzy time ("6AM" or "noon" or any of the other non-strict time formats) on the floor. Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2009-08-22Improve on 'approxidate'Libravatar Linus Torvalds1-30/+63
This is not a new failure mode - approxidate has always been kind of random in the input it accepts, but some of the randomness is more irritating than others. For example: Jun 6, 5AM -> Mon Jun 22 05:00:00 2009 5AM Jun 6 -> Sat Jun 6 05:00:00 2009 Whaa? The reason for the above is that approxidate squirrells away the '6' from "Jun 6" to see if it's going to be a relative number, and then forgets about it when it sees a new number (the '5' in '5AM'). So the odd "June 22" date is because today is July 22nd, and if it doesn't have another day of the month, it will just pick todays mday - having ignored the '6' entirely due to getting all excited about seeing a new number (5). There are other oddnesses. This does not fix them all, but I think it makes for fewer _really_ perplexing cases. At least now we have Jun 6, 5AM -> Sat Jun 6 05:00:00 2009 5AM, Jun 6 -> Sat Jun 6 05:00:00 2009 which makes me happier. I can still point to cases that don't work as well, but those are separate issues. Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2009-05-05Work around BSD whose typeof(tv.tv_sec) != time_tLibravatar Bernd Ahlers1-1/+3
According to POSIX, tv_sec is supposed to be a time_t, but OpenBSD (and FreeBSD, too) defines it to be a long, which triggers a type mismatch when a pointer to it is given to localtime_r(). Acked-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2009-02-25never fallback relative times to absoluteLibravatar Jeff King1-1/+19
Previously, for dates older than 12 months we fell back to just giving the absolute time. This can be a bit jarring when reading a list of times. Instead, let's switch to "Y years, M months" for five years, and then just "Y years" after that. No particular reason on the 5 year cutoff except that it seemed reasonable to me. Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2009-02-20Support 'raw' date formatLibravatar Linus Torvalds1-0/+7
Talking about --date, one thing I wanted for the 1234567890 date was to get things in the raw format. Sure, you get them with --pretty=raw, but it felt a bit sad that you couldn't just ask for the date in raw format. So here's a throw-away patch (meaning: I won't be re-sending it, because I really don't think it's a big deal) to add "--date=raw". It just prints out the internal raw git format - seconds since epoch plus timezone (put another way: 'date +"%s %z"' format) Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2008-08-17date/time: do not get confused by fractional secondsLibravatar Linus Torvalds1-6/+20
The date/time parsing code was confused if the input time HH:MM:SS is followed by fractional seconds. Since we do not record anything finer grained than seconds, we could just drop fractional part, but there is a twist. We have taught people that not just spaces but dot can be used as word separators when spelling things like: $ git log --since 2.days $ git show @{12:34:56.7.days.ago} and we shouldn't mistake "7" in the latter example as a fraction and discard it. The rules are: - valid days of month/mday are always single or double digits. - valid years are either two or four digits No, we don't support the year 600 _anyway_, since our encoding is based on the UNIX epoch, and the day we worry about the year 10,000 is far away and we can raise the limit to five digits when we get closer. - Other numbers (eg "600 days ago") can have any number of digits, but they cannot start with a zero. Again, the only exception is for two-digit numbers, since that is fairly common for dates ("Dec 01" is not unheard of) So that means that any milli- or micro-second would be thrown out just because the number of digits shows that it cannot be an interesting date. A milli- or micro-second can obviously be a perfectly fine number according to the rules above, as long as it doesn't start with a '0'. So if we have 12:34:56.123 then that '123' gets parsed as a number, and we remember it. But because it's bigger than 31, we'll never use it as such _unless_ there is something after it to trigger that use. So you can say "12:34:56.123.days.ago", and because of the "days", that 123 will actually be meaninful now. Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2008-06-23Make my_mktime() public and rename it to tm_to_time_t()Libravatar Johannes Sixt1-5/+8
We will use it from the MinGW port's gettimeofday() substitution. Signed-off-by: Johannes Sixt <johannes.sixt@telecom.at>
2008-06-17Fix approxidate("never") to always return 0Libravatar Olivier Marin1-4/+2
Commit af66366a9feb0194ed04b1f538998021ece268a8 introduced the keyword "never" to be used with approxidate() but defined it with a fixed date without taking care of timezone. As a result approxidate() will return a timestamp in the future with a negative timezone. With this patch, approxidate("never") always return 0 whatever your timezone is. Signed-off-by: Olivier Marin <dkr@freesurf.fr> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2008-02-25timezone_names[]: fixed the tz offset for New Zealand.Libravatar Steven Drake1-3/+3
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2007-09-29parse_date_format(): convert a format name to an enum date_modeLibravatar Andy Parkins1-0/+20
Factor out the code to parse --date=<format> parameter to revision walkers into a separate function, parse_date_format(). This function is passed a string and converts it to an enum date_format: - "relative" => DATE_RELATIVE - "iso8601" or "iso" => DATE_ISO8601 - "rfc2822" => DATE_RFC2822 - "short" => DATE_SHORT - "local" => DATE_LOCAL - "default" => DATE_NORMAL In the event that none of these strings is found, the function die()s. Signed-off-by: Andy Parkins <andyparkins@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>