problems composing a dateandtime value

[Michael P. Soulier]

Greetings,






int
parse_dateandtime(char *input, char *output)
{
    unsigned short int year, month, day, hour, minute, second;
    unsigned short int i;
    char *cptr;

    /* Validate the input. */
    if (input == NULL)
    {
        DEBUGMSGTL(("mitelSnmpUtil",
                    "parse_dateandtime: input is NULL\n"));
        return FALSE;
    }
    if (output == NULL)
    {
        DEBUGMSGTL(("mitelSnmpUtil",
                    "parse_dateandtime: output is NULL\n"));
        return FALSE;
    }
    /* Should look something like "2005-06-08,22:16:54" */
    if (strlen(input) < MIN_DATETIME_LENGTH)
    {
        DEBUGMSGTL(("mitelSnmpUtil",
                    "parse_dateandtime: input string too small\n"));
        return FALSE;
    }

    DEBUGMSGTL(("mitelSnmpUtil",
                "Trying to parse DateAndTime string: %s\n", input));
    if (sscanf(input, "%hu-%hu-%hu,%hu:%hu:%hu",
                &year, &month, &day, &hour, &minute, &second) != 6)
    {
        fprintf(stderr, "Warning: Failed to parse DateAndTime value "
                "from string: %s\n", input);
        return FALSE;
    }

    DEBUGMSGTL(("mitelSnmpUtil",
                "Parsed DateAndTime value. Got %d %d %d %d %d %d\n",
                year, month, day, hour, minute, second));

    /* Note, the year must be in network byte order. */
    cptr = output;
    i = year & 0xFF00;
    i >>= 8;
    *cptr = i;
    cptr++;
    *cptr = year & 0x00FF;
    cptr++;
    *cptr = (u_char)month;
    cptr++;
    *cptr = (u_char)day;
    cptr++;
    *cptr = (u_char)hour;
    cptr++;
    *cptr = (u_char)minute;
    cptr++;
    *cptr = (u_char)second;
    cptr++;

     * with zeros anyway, just to be friendly to any clients expecting the
     * agreed-upon length. We need four more bytes.
     */
    *cptr = (u_char)0;
    cptr++;
    *cptr = (u_char)'-';
    cptr++;
    *cptr = (u_char)5;
    cptr++;
    *cptr = (u_char)0;
    cptr++;
    *cptr = '\0';

    return TRUE;
}

But when I use this, the snmpwalk ends up looking funny.



Lots of trailing junk.

Any idea what I'm doing wrong here?

Thanks,
Mike

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I'm trying to compose a DateAndTime string, but when it's decoded by net-snmp's command-line tools it has trailing junk that I don't understand. Here's my function. The input value is coming from a text-file that's in a human-readable format. /* While we only care up to the second, we should add in the other octets MITEL-CMNALM-MIB::mitelAlmActiveTblSeverityDetectTime.10.1.3.6.1.4.1.1027.1.7.1 = STRING: 1971-1-16,12:1:30.0,-0:0495058484924000

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