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From: Zefram <zefram@fysh.org>
To: 26259@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#26259: ~f SRFI-19 format broken for small nanoseconds values
Date: Sun, 26 Mar 2017 03:00:50 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20170326020050.GC6453@fysh.org> (raw)

The ~f format specifier in SRFI-19's date->string function is supposed
to produce a decimal string representation of the seconds and nanoseconds
portions of a date together:

scheme@(guile-user)> (use-modules (srfi srfi-19))
scheme@(guile-user)> (date->string (make-date 550000000 56 34 12 26 3 2017 0) "~f")
$1 = "56.55"

but it screws up for nanoseconds values in the range (0, 1000000), i.e.,
for any time that lies strictly within the first millisecond of a second:

scheme@(guile-user)> (date->string (make-date 550000 56 34 12 26 3 2017 0) "~f")
$2 = "56.5e-4"

Looks like the fractional seconds value is being formatted through a
mechanism that is not suitable for this purpose, which uses exponent
notation for sufficiently small values and thereby surprises the
date->string code.  Note that just assembling the seconds+fraction value
and putting the whole thing through the same formatter, as opposed to
putting the fractional part through on its own, would fix the above test
cases, and any others with non-zero integer seconds, but would leave
the bug unfixed for the case where the integer seconds value is zero.
Fixing this requires not using any formatting mechanism that would ever
resort to exponent notation for values in the relevant range.

-zefram





             reply	other threads:[~2017-03-26  2:00 UTC|newest]

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2017-03-26  2:00 Zefram [this message]
2017-04-19 13:50 ` bug#26259: ~f SRFI-19 format broken for small nanoseconds values Andy Wingo

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