On Nov 8, 2007 6:26 AM, Arthur David Olson <olsona@elsie.nci.nih.gov> wrote:

Here are proposed changes to eliminate the "P" macro from time zone source
(a first step in simplifying the code by assuming C99 compilers).

                               --ado

I tried to apply this as a patch and run into two problems.

1. The file names are not readily obvious to the patch program; the names it sees are /tmp/geta13002 and /tmp/getb13002 etc, rather than (say) date.c.
2. There should be a 2 characters (eg two blanks, or "! " or "+ ") at the start of each line, but by the time Gmail gets the message, there's a blank missing at the start of lines such as the #ifndef lines at the start of the patch below.  I also had some unfortunate line-wrapping, but I'm willing to blame that on the (other) email program I use.
   
3. I tried manually fixing up the patch file for the line starts, but was not successful.
   

 

------- date.c -------
*** /tmp/geta13002      Thu Nov  8 09:23:34 2007
--- /tmp/getb13002      Thu Nov  8 09:23:34 2007
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