Attention to bug 170444

[Neil Williams]

On Sunday 28 August 2005 11:39 pm, Thomas Bushnell BSG wrote:
> Thomas Bushnell BSG <tb at becket.net> writes:
> > Attention please to http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=170444
> > (Debian bug http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=312109).
> >
> > I believe I have the fix.  The problem is that many locales have date
> > string formats longer than eleven characters.

As part of my work on QOF to handle UTC times and to output those to XML in an 
xml-compatible form (that validates with a schema), I'd already upped the 
length to 31:
#define MAX_DATE_LENGTH 31
gnc-date.h

I've no problem making it 40 - do some formats produce strings between 31 and 
40?

> Lol.  This is stunning.  The bug is freakier than I thought at first.
> It is a bug that gnucash only allows 11 character long dates

G2 has been using 31 for about 6 months now.

> But gnucash correctly fills in "11" for the MAX argument to strftime,
> and never passes it a buffer shorter than that.  Upping
> MAX_DATE_LENGTH doesn't fix anything.  The problem indeed has nothing
> to do with buffer lengths.

Well, at least the 11 limit has been fixed.

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