Re: gtk_calendar_get_date once again

[John Coppens <john jcoppens com>]

On Tue, 29 Mar 2005 13:15:06 +0200 (CEST)
"Hubert Sokolowski" <h sokolowski wsisiz edu pl> wrote:

> > > but why it returns (GDateMonth - 1) ?
> > > It is not compatible with GDate !
> >
> > It does not return the date in GDate format anyway, so the
> > issue of incompatibility does not arise.
> > As the prototype says,
> > void gtk_calendar_get_date(GtkCalendar*, guint*, guint*, guint*);
> >
> > I guess it is upto the user to get the dd-mm-yyyy and then
> > convert it to GDate, if such an API exists.
> yes but the docs for GtkCalendar does not say it returns month in range
> 0-11, and it can be confusing. I reported a doc bug for this but it
> hasn't been fixed for months.

I believe this is not a bug, but an intent (maybe not entirely
justifiable) to remain compatible with the standard C function like
localtime() and gmtime() which also return the month as -1. In fact,
get_date probably just calls one of these functions.

John

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