On 2024-08-02 01:42, Bruno Haible wrote:
A more intelligent programmer will answer it with "A day is a period of
23 or 24 or 25 hours, going from 00:00 to 24:00 of each date"
The TZDB timezones don't always fit that paradigm exactly. In Samoa, the
"day" 1892-07-04 was a period of 48 hours, bec
Hi Bruno,
Thanks for your recent patch gnulib-tool.py. I didn't really look at it
until now.
One minor correction I applied. The GLModule.getDependentsRecursively
function returns 'set[GLModule]' not 'str'.
The function looks similar to a function I wrote that does this to the
set before returni
Hi Bruno,
On Fri, Aug 02, 2024 at 12:50:59PM GMT, Bruno Haible wrote:
> Alejandro Colomar wrote:
> > A day-precission timestamp is a timestamp at any point of that day.
> s/precission/precision/ (note that precession is yet another thing).
Thanks! There are several words which I always incorrect
Alejandro Colomar wrote:
> A day-precission timestamp is a timestamp at any point of that day.
s/precission/precision/ (note that precession is yet another thing).
> (In fact, in /etc/shadow they are stored as full days after Epoch, not
> as a number of seconds, so it is really a day-precission t
Hi Bruno,
On Fri, Aug 02, 2024 at 10:42:03AM GMT, Bruno Haible wrote:
> Alejandro Colomar wrote:
> > However, I'd say that's more likely to be that the authors of RFC 9557
> > didn't think of dates without time (maybe they didn't think of a case
> > where this would be useful), rather than having
Paul Eggert wrote:
> I had originally thought to put the "#define _LINUX_SOURCE_COMPAT 1"
> into AC_USE_SYSTEM_EXTENSIONS, which would have fixed it in a different
> way. However, it's not really an extension to AIX but more of a change
> (since it changes the strerror_r API) so I didn't do that
Alejandro Colomar wrote:
> However, I'd say that's more likely to be that the authors of RFC 9557
> didn't think of dates without time (maybe they didn't think of a case
> where this would be useful), rather than having expressely desired to
> not include it in their standard. And so, let's say th
