[FFmpeg-devel] parse_date using localtime etc.

[Michael Niedermayer]

On Fri, Feb 06, 2009 at 03:17:04PM +0100, Reimar D?ffinger wrote:
> I forgot...
> 
> On Fri, Feb 06, 2009 at 02:47:05PM +0100, Michael Niedermayer wrote:
> > > Or make an av_localtime_r?
> > 
> > yes, write a clean, short (max 1 page of code) implementation of localtime()
> 
> I hope you do not mean one without using localtime, localtime_r or
> localtime_s? 

> How is that supposed to be maintainable, you need the data
> about all summer-time switching dates, 

you can ignore summer time as well


> when there were leap seconds and

thats an array of 30 entries or so with 1 entry added per year.


> if the current time zone used them or not and possibly more stuff.
> Not to mention that linux, Windows, OSX all use a different format for
> time_t.

well, IMHO either we can implement it cleanly, portably and with little
code or we should just drop it

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