FreeTDS Development Group

[Brian Bruns <camber AT ais.org>]

Bill,

A short recap of locales.  We added a locales.conf file to $SYBASE/etc 
that is similar in format to the freetds.conf file with "default" and 
sections such as "en_US".  FreeTDS first checks default, then overrides 
with the setting from $LANG and looks for char set, language, and date 
format options.  The "date format" parameter is a format string suitable 
for strftime().  Here in lies the problem, we no longer use strftime in 
favour of your very fine implementation that doesn't rely on unix time_t. 
;-)

So, now it falls to someone to add a function similiar to strftime() 
capable formating the cracked date (month, day, year, hour, etc...), and 
most importantly guarding for buffer overflows.

It's top on my list if I can round up some time, which this weekend is 
looking good so far.

Cheers,

Brian

On Tue, 28 May 2002, Bill Thompson wrote:

> thanks guys for the input. The truth is out there... 
> 
> It's fair to say I only mimicked the behaviour of dbconvert (db-lib only)
> from Sybase open client 10. I'm not familiar with ct-lib.
> 
> The locales file solution seems to be the way forward.  
> I gather that this has been implemented in 0.53 fairly recently, but I'm
> not familiar with what has been done.
> At the end of the day, the date routines in convert.c have everything they
> need to output the date in any format we choose.
> The end result is just a sprintf()....
>