[PATCH 1/2] [BZ #16141] strptime: extend %z range to UTC+14:00

[James Perkins]

On Tue, Dec 2, 2014 at 10:21 PM, Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu> wrote:
> Yes, that's right.  If possible it should go all the way to -24:59:59 to
> +25:59:59.  Or perhaps you should allow the first two digits to be anything
> up to 99; why not be generous?

I will rework strptime to remove the limits on hours, so that strptime will
calculate a correct seconds offset for values in the range -9959 to +9959 if
minutes are provided in the input string, or -99 to +99 hours if the minutes
were not provided.

I do not plan to extend strptime's functionality to include optional seconds
(presumably a six numeric digit offset string) at this time; it is a new feature
and deserves its own bugzilla entry. It will also need a champion which is
more motivated and better connected than I am.

Cheers,
James
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