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locale.c: ints_to_tm: Fix #if's
tl;dr:
Fixes GH #23878
I botched this in Perl 5.42. These conditional compilation statements
were just plain wrong, causing code to be skipped that should have been
compiled. It only affected the few hours of the year when daylight
savings time is removed, so that the hour value is repeated. We didn't
have a good test for that.
gory details:
libc uses 'struct tm' to hold information about a given instant in
time, containing fields for things like the year, month, hour, etc. The
libc function mktime() is used to normalize the structure, adjusting,
say, an input Nov 31 to be Dec 01.
One of the fields in the structure, 'is_dst', indicates if daylight
savings is in effect, or whether that fact is unknown. If unknown,
mktime() is supposed to calculate the answer and to change 'is_dst'
accordingly. Some implementations appear to always do this calculation
even when the input value says the result is known. Others appear to
honor it.
Some libc implementations have extra fields in 'struct tm'.
Perl has a stripped down version of mktime(), called mini_mktime(),
written by Larry Wall a long time ago. I don't know why. This crippled
version ignores locale and daylight time. It also doesn't know about
the extra fields in 'struct tm' that some implementations have. Nor can
it be extended to know about those fields, as they are dependent on
timezone and daylight time, which it deliberately doesn't consider.
The botched #ifdef's were supposed to compensate for both the extra
fields in the struct and that some libc implementations always
recalculate 'is_dst'.
On systems with these fields, the botched #if's caused only
mini_mktime() to be called. This meant that these extra fields didn't
get populated, and daylight time is never considered to be in effect.
And 'is_dst' does not get changed from the input.
On systems without these fields, the regular libc mktime() would be
called appropriately.
The bottom line is that for the portion of the year when daylight
savings is not in effect, that portion worked properly. The two extra
fields would not be populated, so if some code were to read them, it
would only get the proper values by chance. We got no reports of this.
I attribute that to the fact that the use of these is not portable, so
code wouldn't tend to use them. There are portable ways to access the
information they contain.
Tests were failing for the portions of the year when daylight savings is
in effect; see GH #22351. The code looked correct just reading it (not
seeing the flaw in the #ifdef's), so I assumed that it was an issue in
the libc implementations and instituted a workaround. (I can't now
think of a platform where there hasn't been a problem with a libc with
something regarding locales, so that was a reasonable assumption.)
Among other things (fixed in the next commit), that workaround overrode
the 'is_dst' field after the call to mini_mktime(), so that the value
actually passed to libc strftime() indicated that daylight is in effect.
What happens next depends on the libc strftime() implementation. It
could conceivably itself call mktime() which might choose to override
is_dst to be the correct value, and everything would always work. The
more likely possibility is that it just takes the values in the struct
as-is. Remember that those values on systems with the extra fields were
calculated as if daylight savings wasn't in effect, but now we're
telling strftime() to use those values as if it were in effect. This
is a discrepancy. I'd have to trace through some libc implementations
to understand why this discrepancy seems to not matter except at the
transition time.
But the bottom line is this commit removes that discrepancy, and causes
mktime() to be called appropriately on systems where it wasn't, so
strftime() should now function properly.1 parent fc218cf commit 125aba8
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