Date module is limited to 63 chars

[Lemmmy]

The string date = AAAAAAAAAABBBBBBBBBBCCCCCCCCCCDDDDDDDDDDEEEEEEEEEEFFFFFFFFFFGGGGGGGGGGHHHHHHHHHHIIIIIIIIII renders AAAAAAAAAABBBBBBBBBBCCCCCCCCCCDDDDDDDDDDEEEEEEEEEEFFFFFFFFFFGGG - this does not seem to be a limitation of date, as running date +AAAAAAAAAABBBBBBBBBBCCCCCCCCCCDDDDDDDDDDEEEEEEEEEEFFFFFFFFFFGGGGGGGGGGHHHHHHHHHHIIIIIIIIII outputs the exact input string.

This prevents me from using a date string like %Y%%{F#5c6370}-%%{F-}%m%%{F#5c6370}-%%{F-}%d %H%%{F#5c6370}:%%{F-}%M%%{F#5c6370}:%%{F-}%S.

[Lemmmy]

Culprit code seems to be at modules/date.cpp#L45

[patrick96]

I don't see a sensible way to make strftime work with an arbitrary date or time string. The solutions I've found are just increasing the buffer size until strftime stops returning zero.
I'll open a PR that just takes the length of the date string, multiplies it by 10, clamps that value between 64 and 1024 and uses it as the length of the buffer.