strptime on OS X always returns 0 for tm_wday and tm_yday

[Brian King]

As mentioned in this 5-year old comment on the php documentation page http://php.net/manual/en/function.strptime.php#89239 , tm_wday and tm_yday are not initialized on BSD-based systems.

This is apparently still true, at least on OS X. I'm running PHP 5.5.20, and these values are always set to 0.

htdocs/view/access.php in Mahara 1.10.2 uses tm_wday in the ptimetotime() function.

I propose that this method be updated to not use tm_wday, since it doesn't need to.

```
diff --git a/htdocs/view/access.php b/htdocs/view/access.php
index 26ea7d3..299bf89 100644
--- a/htdocs/view/access.php
+++ b/htdocs/view/access.php
@@ -336,8 +336,8 @@ function ptimetotime($ptime) {
         $ptime['tm_hour'],
         $ptime['tm_min'],
         $ptime['tm_sec'],
- 1,
- $ptime['tm_yday'] + 1,
+ $ptime['tm_mon'] + 1,
+ $ptime['tm_mday'],
         $ptime['tm_year'] + 1900
     );
 }
```

[Mahara Bot (dev-mahara)]

Patch for "master" branch: https://reviews.mahara.org/4274

[Aaron Wells (u-aaronw)]

Hi Brian,

Thanks for the patch! I've pushed it into our code review system here: https://reviews.mahara.org/4274

As mentioned in the Mahara README file, we only officially support Debian & Ubuntu, but I'm always willing to consider community patches to increase our compatibility with our platforms. And it makes more sense to use the tm_mday parameter anyway.

Cheers,
Aaron

[Mahara Bot (dev-mahara)]

Reviewed: https://reviews.mahara.org/4274
Committed: http://gitorious.org/mahara/mahara/commit/6e07fb0738fcf1da99e799b31961570b2743d37d
Submitter: Robert Lyon (<email address hidden>)
Branch: master

commit 6e07fb0738fcf1da99e799b31961570b2743d37d
Author: Brian King <email address hidden>
Date: Fri Feb 13 13:52:00 2015 +1300

Use different strptime params for BSD compatibility

Bug 1414628: The "tm_yday" (day of the year) param is not supplied by
strptime by default on BSD systems such as Mac OS X.
It works just as well to use "tm_mday" (day of the month) param instead,
and it also makes more sense!

Change-Id: I1484dcde4dbd8199f578a4eb5a58a9f78de45635

[Mahara Bot (dev-mahara)]

Patch for "1.10_STABLE" branch: https://reviews.mahara.org/4277

[Mahara Bot (dev-mahara)]

Reviewed: https://reviews.mahara.org/4277
Committed: http://gitorious.org/mahara/mahara/commit/a731e43527544a306085c4c0f394335cf029ef40
Submitter: Robert Lyon (<email address hidden>)
Branch: 1.10_STABLE

commit a731e43527544a306085c4c0f394335cf029ef40
Author: Brian King <email address hidden>
Date: Fri Feb 13 13:52:00 2015 +1300

Use different strptime params for BSD compatibility

Bug 1414628: The "tm_yday" (day of the year) param is not supplied by
strptime by default on BSD systems such as Mac OS X.
It works just as well to use "tm_mday" (day of the month) param instead,
and it also makes more sense!

Change-Id: I1484dcde4dbd8199f578a4eb5a58a9f78de45635

[Mahara Bot (dev-mahara)]

Patch for "1.9_STABLE" branch: https://reviews.mahara.org/4678

[Mahara Bot (dev-mahara)]

Reviewed: https://reviews.mahara.org/4678
Committed: http://gitorious.org/mahara/mahara/commit/ec31ef4e699ad6cffa6fb3273b8e574fb9aaeead
Submitter: Aaron Wells (<email address hidden>)
Branch: 1.9_STABLE

commit ec31ef4e699ad6cffa6fb3273b8e574fb9aaeead
Author: Brian King <email address hidden>
Date: Fri Feb 13 13:52:00 2015 +1300

Use different strptime params for BSD compatibility

Bug 1414628: The "tm_yday" (day of the year) param is not supplied by
strptime by default on BSD systems such as Mac OS X.
It works just as well to use "tm_mday" (day of the month) param instead,
and it also makes more sense!

Change-Id: I1484dcde4dbd8199f578a4eb5a58a9f78de45635