strftime improvements

[Jeff Johnston]

Patch checked in.  I made two minor changes to remove some compiler warnings I 
was getting.  They may already have been there before the patch.

Thanks,

-- Jeff J.

Eric Blake wrote:
> Following up to my post last month about broken strftime(3), here is a
> patch that implements all the remaining missing functionality required by
> POSIX, as well as improving the documentation.
> 
> Note that there are still some useful non-POSIX extensions out there that
> might be worth implementing.  In glibc, strftime(NULL, (size_t)UINT_MAX,
> format, &tm) returns the number of characters that would be placed into a
> non-NULL string, great for allocating a string to have exact length.  And
> in Solaris, strftime(s, len, NULL, &tm) uses "%c" as the default format.
> 
> Also, something I did not know how to fix - POSIX requires that <time.h>
> include extern int daylight, extern long timezone, and extern char
> *tzname.  But as currently written, <time.h> has daylight and tzname
> exposed only under __CYGWIN__, and timezone is a function instead of a
> long unless timezonevar is defined.
> 
> 2005-02-14  Eric Blake  <ebb9@byu.net>
> 
> 	* libc/time/time.tex: Improve the documentation.
> 	* libc/time/strftime.c: Improve the documentation.
> 	(iso_year_adjust): New helper function.
> 	(strftime): Simplify '%E' and '%O'. Change '%c' to use
> 	recursion. Fix '%C', '%y', and '%Y' to deal with years with more
> 	than 4 characters.  Combine '%d' and '%e'. Implement '%D', '%F',
> 	'%g', '%G', '%n', '%R', '%t', '%T', '%u', '%V', '%X', and '%z'.
> 	Avoid core dumps on valid inputs (maxsize == 0, or
> 	tim_p->tm_isdst > 1).
>