Markus Kuhn ha escrit:
I've just been told by someone from the British mirror of ISO/IEC JTC1/ SC22/WG14 that C9X has now become C99 and that the new ISO C standard (DIS?) has been completed.
That is correct. It is even rumored to be published; however, as <URL:http://anubis.dkuug.dk/JTC1/SC22/open/n3050.htm> is not up to date, the notice of publication (that should appear there) is still awaited.
Did someone here look already into what finally happened to <time.h>?
Yes. As you know, the problematic proposed changes were not accepted, and are removed from (what is now) the International Standard. As a result, there are two main differences with respect to C90 (a.k.a. ANSI C 89): - a number of stuff, coming from POSIX, have been added to the specifiers to be used with strftime (and wcsftime); - the default values when in the "C" localization have been fixed (to follow U.S. usage and default practice under Unix). If we except wcsftime, I believe the current tzcode package is conforming with the new standard, but I need to check that carefully (I still have to print my copy of the Standard...) With respect to the last publicly available draft (which should be available at <URL:ftp://dkuug.dk/JTC1/SC22/WG14/www/docs/n869>), the differences are: - the default value when in the "C" localization have been aligned with POSIX; - the 3rd paragraph of mktime have been removed; in N869 it was wrongly requiring mktime to return identical values on subsequent calls; it was only a small point added by the mkxtime stuff, and it stayed unnoticed (mainly my fault) when we dropped the problematic stuff. Antoine