• David L. Davis (39/39) Jul 24 2004 Passing a "MM/DD/YYYY" or "YYYY/MM/DD" formated string into std.date.par...
• J C Calvarese (11/55) Jul 24 2004 Yeah, I'd call it a bug.

David L. Davis <SpottedTiger yahoo.com> writes:

Passing a "MM/DD/YYYY" or "YYYY/MM/DD" formated string into std.date.parse()
function which has a year equal-to or less-than 1970, causes the other std.date
functions to use 1970 internal as the year... messing up the end results.
Needless to say this is throwing my wip dateutils.d module functions off! :( 

Everything above 1970 seems to work just fine, is it me or is this a bug I
should report? Thxs as always, in advance. :))


























<output>
parse( sDate ) is creating a wrong d_time
parse( "07/04/1776" )=0x112A880  )
YearFromTime( parse( "07/04/1776" )=1970

TimeFromYear( 1776 )=0xFFFFFA6E99B1C400 is fine with an integer
YearFromTime( TimeFromYear( 1776 ) )=1776
</output>

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J C Calvarese <jcc7 cox.net> writes:

David L. Davis wrote:
 Passing a "MM/DD/YYYY" or "YYYY/MM/DD" formated string into std.date.parse()
 function which has a year equal-to or less-than 1970, causes the other std.date
 functions to use 1970 internal as the year... messing up the end results.
 Needless to say this is throwing my wip dateutils.d module functions off! :( 
 
 Everything above 1970 seems to work just fine, is it me or is this a bug I
 should report? Thxs as always, in advance. :))

Yeah, I'd call it a bug.

 From http://www.digitalmars.com/d/phobos.html:
"typedef d_time: Is a signed arithmetic type giving the time elapsed 
since January 1, 1970. Negative values are for dates preceding 1970. The 
time unit used is Ticks. Ticks are milliseconds or smaller intervals."

Without studying the code in std\dateparse.d, I'd guess that the 
negative case of a d_time isn't handled correctly.

 
























 
 <output>
 parse( sDate ) is creating a wrong d_time
 parse( "07/04/1776" )=0x112A880  )
 YearFromTime( parse( "07/04/1776" )=1970
 
 TimeFromYear( 1776 )=0xFFFFFA6E99B1C400 is fine with an integer
 YearFromTime( TimeFromYear( 1776 ) )=1776
 </output>
 
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