re: lib/50143: various bugs/weirdness with parsedate(3) (libutil) (+ some suggested fixes)

[matthew green <mrg%eterna.com.au@localhost>]

The following reply was made to PR lib/50143; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: matthew green <mrg%eterna.com.au@localhost>
To: gnats-bugs%NetBSD.org@localhost
Cc: lib-bug-people%netbsd.org@localhost, gnats-admin%netbsd.org@localhost,
    netbsd-bugs%netbsd.org@localhost
Subject: re: lib/50143: various bugs/weirdness with parsedate(3) (libutil) (+ some suggested fixes)
Date: Thu, 13 Aug 2015 07:41:37 +1000

 > 	Sorry, this is going to be a long PR - I thought it better to
 > 	send one PR containing all of the problems with parsedate(3) I've
 > 	noticed today, rather than 4 or 5 (or whatever) for this one
 > 	relatively obscure libutil function.
 > 
 > 	If you don't care about the grizzly internals of time related
 > 	functions, you should probably just delete any e-mail about
 > 	this PR (including this message).   That probably leaves about
 > 	3 or 4 of us who care...
 
 so, i did read all of this and i think i pretty much agree with
 everything in it that is easily doable (vs the questions :-),
 except for this part:
 
 > 	Whatever is done needs a pullup to NetBSD 7.
 
 netbsd-7 just went RC3 and we're hoping this will actually be what
 is released, so changing libc now seems unlikely.
 
 
 .mrg.