Re: [PATCH 1/2] date.c: allow fractional second part of ISO-8601

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On 2020-04-14 23:49:58+0000, "brian m. carlson" <sandals@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On 2020-04-14 at 20:17:33, Jeff King wrote:
> > On Tue, Apr 14, 2020 at 04:31:54PM +0700, Đoàn Trần Công Danh wrote:
> > 
> > > diff --git a/date.c b/date.c
> > > index b0d9a8421d..2f37397beb 100644
> > > --- a/date.c
> > > +++ b/date.c
> > > @@ -556,6 +556,8 @@ static int match_multi_number(timestamp_t num, char c, const char *date,
> > >  	case ':':
> > >  		if (num3 < 0)
> > >  			num3 = 0;
> > > +		else if (*end == '.' && isdigit(end[1]))
> > > +			strtol(end + 1, &end, 10);
> > 
> > This just throws away the fractional part. I doubt anybody cares much
> > either way, but another option would be to round num3 up or down.
> 
> I'm happy with truncation.  It's simple and straightforward and will be
> widely and intuitively understood by programmers, who are probably the
> primary users of our ISO 8601 handling.
> 
> I do appreciate that you pointed this out, because it's a good point.
> 
> And overall, I agree that this seems like a good fix for the problem.

I'll reword the subject to "throw away fractional second part of ISO-8601"

1 second is not that big, and and the logic is simpler.

-- 
Danh



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