Re: [Patch] patch -Z not working if timestamp contains seconds >=59.5

[Christian Franke <Christian dot Franke at t-online dot de>]

Dave Korn wrote:
> ...
> diff -rup patch-2.5.8-8.orig/partime.c patch-2.5.8-8/partime.c
> --- patch-2.5.8-8.orig/partime.c	2002-12-15 21:37:32.001000000 +0100
> +++ patch-2.5.8-8/partime.c	2006-04-25 12:14:59.797168500 +0200
> @@ -753,6 +753,8 @@ parse_pattern_letter (s, c, t)
>  	int frac;
>  	s = parse_decimal (s, 2, 0, 60, 1, &t->tm.tm_sec, &frac);
>  	t->tm.tm_sec += frac;
> +	if (t->tm.tm_sec > 59)
> +	  t->tm.tm_sec = 59;
>        }
>        break;
>  
>
>   I'm not sure if rounding errors can be a good idea when makefiles might be
> involved.  Why isn't your code propagating the carry, i.e. setting tm_sec to
> zero and incrmenting the minutes?


... and then propagate the carry to hours, to days, ...,
finally handle leap years and invalid local times during DST change?

The patch simply changes rounding mode for a small interval from 
round-to-nearest to round-down.
This IMO does not add any new monotonicity issues.


As an alternative, round-down (ignore "frac") could be used always.
Then timestamps would be consistent with tar, at least on Cygwin.

In the current versions of patch and tar, a file with NTFS timestamp of e.g.
"12:00:00.7" is transfered as "12:00:01" by patch, but "12:00:00" by tar.

So I would suggest a version 0.0002 of my patch^2 as:

    int frac;
    s = parse_decimal (s, 2, 0, 60, 1, &t->tm.tm_sec, &frac);
-    t->tm.tm_sec += frac;
 }


Christian


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