On Mon, 23 Apr 2001, Andreas Mohr wrote:
On Mon, Apr 23, 2001 at 12:27:58AM -0700, François Gouget wrote:
Btw, the Linux localtime documentation sucks. It's even worse than the MS one!!!
Err, fix it ? ;-)
Really, what is an Open Source programmer supposed to do when he realizes that something sucks ?
Would that do it?
--- cut here --- --- ctime.3.orig Mon Apr 23 00:47:46 2001 +++ ctime.3 Mon Apr 23 00:50:24 2001 @@ -139,7 +139,9 @@ information about the current time zone, \fItimezone\fP with the difference between Coordinated Universal Time (UTC) and local standard time in seconds, and \fIdaylight\fP to a non-zero value if standard US daylight -savings time rules apply. +savings time rules apply. The return value points to a statically +allocated \fItm\fP structure which might be overwritten by subsequent +calls to any of the date and time functions. .PP The \fBasctime()\fP function converts the broken-down time value \fItimeptr\fP into a string with the same format as \fBctime()\fP. --- cut here ---
I wonder where I should send it. Since I'm lazy I guess I will just send it over to Debian where it will join the 2+ years old bug reports for the manpages-dev package. (maybe I should check the source first though :-/)
-- Francois Gouget fgouget@free.fr http://fgouget.free.fr/ The software said it requires Win95 or better, so I installed Linux.