asctime passed the guest tm to the host CRT. UCRT's asctime returns
null and sets errno to EINVAL when tm_year is negative or tm_mday is
past the end of the month (common_asctime_s in ucrt/time/asctime.cpp),
so on Windows asctime of any time in the years 1000 to 1899, which
gmtime converts, or of February 29 in a common year returned null.
C17 7.27.3.1 defines the text for every year from 1000 to 9999 when
each member is in its normal range (tm_mday 1 to 31), and glibc on
the Linux build and FreeBSD 11's asctime
(contrib/tzcode/stdtime/asctime.c) print it.
Format the text with the C17 algorithm's format into a thread-local
buffer that fits any member values. As in glibc and FreeBSD, a
weekday or month outside its range is printed as ???, and the year is
computed in 64 bits.
gmtime, localtime, mktime, strftime and asctime took and returned the
host std::tm. The guest's FreeBSD tm has tm_gmtoff and tm_zone after the
nine calendar fields, so on Windows, where std::tm is 36 bytes, a title
reading those fields read past the thread-local result, and gmtime_s left
them unwritten. Windows gmtime_s also accepts only 1969-12-31 12:00 to
3001-01-19 21:59 UTC, where the guest libc converts any time.
Convert through a GuestTm with the guest layout on both hosts. Compute
the UTC fields from the day count, so every time whose year fits an int
converts, and on Windows take the local offset and zone name from the
CRT. gmtime reports the zone as UTC like the guest libc. localtime and
mktime keep the CRT's range on Windows; recorded in TechnicalDebt.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5.1 <noreply@anthropic.com>