strptime() should assume the current year if no year is specified

[scottchiefbaker]

When using strptime() to process a string if the string does not contain a year, 1970 is assumed. It makes more sense to assume the current year. Anyone parsing a date string without a year will most likely be pulling from current years logs.

Here is a quick test case that exhibits this behavior.

use Time::Piece;

my $input = "Mar 13 14:54:27";
my $t     = localtime->strptime($input, "%b %e %T");
my $ut    = $t->epoch;
my $year  = $t->year;

print "'$input' maps to $ut / $year\n";

Outputs: 'Mar 13 14:54:27' maps to 6216867 / 1970

[smith153]

That's not a bad idea. 1970 was only added because originally it was left null if there was no year....and it really blew up then!

[scottchiefbaker]

In my code I just manually append the current year and add " %Y" on the end of the format. It's a hack, but it works.

It would be best if Time::Piece did it natively.

[scottchiefbaker]

Any updates on this?

[smith153]

Not at the moment but it will be in the next release.

[scottchiefbaker]

Just doing a quick ping on this to see if there is anything I can do to help it along.