Experimental Physics and
Industrial Control System

Marty Kraimer <[email protected]> · Wed, 27 Oct 1999 08:06:00 -0500

"Christopher A. Larrieu" wrote:
> 
> Hi all,
> 
>   I've discovered a minor problem in tsTextToStamp() which
> prevents the year "00" from being parsed properly, while
> 01..89 are problem-free.  The culprit is a test for
> (year <= 0), which should be (year < 0).  To wit, the
> following modification should be made to tsSubr.c version
> 1.35.2.1 at lines 1318 and 1368.
> 
> line 1318:
> 
>     if (count <= 1 || t.year <= 0)
> 
>   becomes
> 
>     if (count <= 1 || t.year < 0 ||
>         (count > 3 && t.year < TS_EPOCH_YEAR))
> 
> 
>   I vaguely recall someone else mentioning something similar
> some time ago, so sorry if this is already known.  As far as
> I can tell, none of EPICS base uses this routine, though I
> haven't checked the extensions.

I made the change so that it will be in both the next patch release (3.13.2) and
in the 3.14 releases.

Thanks,

Marty Kraimer

Experimental Physics and Industrial Control System

Experimental Physics and
Industrial Control System