[bugs #12330] NSCalendarDate has arbitrary year limit that makes it unable to read its own output

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                 Summary: NSCalendarDate has arbitrary year limit that makes
it unable to read its own output
                 Project: GNUstep
            Submitted by: None
            Submitted on: Tue 03/15/2005 at 10:21
                Category: Base/Foundation
                Severity: 5 - Average
              Item Group: Bug
                  Status: None
                 Privacy: Public
             Assigned to: None
             Open/Closed: Open

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Details:

For some reason NSCalendarDate formats limit the year to the range (0, 9999).
I see no reason for this, and in fact it means that NSCalendarDate can't parse
its own output for +[NSDate distantPast] and +[NSDate distantFuture].



Here's the fix (based on gnustep 1.8.0):



====
//projects/shared/gnustep-base-1.8.0.1/akamai/gnustep-base/Source/NSCalendarDate.m#2
- /u0/lcampbel/nbuild/akamai/gnustep-base/Source/NSCalendarDate.m ====

@@ -1027,7 +1027,7 @@

                    break;

 

                  case 'Y':

-                   sourceIdx += getDigits(&source[sourceIdx], tmpStr, 4);

+                   sourceIdx += getDigits(&source[sourceIdx], tmpStr, 6);

                    year = atoi(tmpStr);

                    had |= hadY;

                    break;

@@ -1610,7 +1610,7 @@

  *     %y   year as a decimal number without century (minimum 0)

  *   </item>

  *   <item>

- *     %Y   year as a decimal number with century, minimum 0, maximum 9999

+ *     %Y   year as a decimal number with century

  *   </item>

  *   <item>

  *     %z   time zone offset (HHMM)

@@ -1675,10 +1675,6 @@

              ycent = YES;

            case 'y':

              ++i;

-             if (yd < 0)

-               yd = 0;

-             if (yd > 9999)

-               yd = 9999;

              if (ycent)

                k = VSPRINTF_LENGTH(sprintf(&(buf[j]), "%04d", yd));

              else










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