Re: Ssystem bug

[Michael Hill <Michael_Hill@csgsystems.com>]

On Mon, Apr 27, 1998 at 06:41:38PM +0200, Axel Kielhorn wrote:
>According to my C Reference for localtime() the 1.14.7 version *is* correct
>and the table above should read:
>
>>	Day of week | 1.14.7 |
>>	------------+--------+
>>	Sunday      | 0      |
>>	Monday      | 1      |
>>	...         | ...    |
>>	Saturday    | 6      |
>
>As long as I can remember the week starts with Sunday and since programmers
>start counting with 0 this is correct.
>
>The strange thing is that the days in the month start with 1 for the first.
>Who was smoking what when writing this function?  (It is ANSI C, not K&R)

That is neither incorrect nor inconsistent.  The numbering scheme is
from the UNIX struct tm.  Since people would want to print the date
in human-readable format, the month and day-of-week values are chosen
so as to be used as indices into string arrays (i.e., char **) for the
names.  So month[0] = "Jan" and dow[0] = "Sun".  The day-of-month,
OTOH, isn't needed as an index but would be printed directly;
therefore the first of the month is 1.

-- 
			--Michael

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