From c42420319f4bca1927484f6a594c7dac6be53432 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Wayne Davison <wayned@users.sourceforge.net>
Date: Wed, 5 May 2004 17:00:58 +0000
Subject: [PATCH] Set the first character of buf to '\1' before the strftime()
 call so we can try to distinguish a zero-length string from an error return
 (a minor fix to Peter's patch).

---
 Src/utils.c | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/Src/utils.c b/Src/utils.c
index ee78665c1..67bc28abd 100644
--- a/Src/utils.c
+++ b/Src/utils.c
@@ -1834,7 +1834,7 @@ ztrftime(char *buf, int bufsize, char *fmt, struct tm *tm)
 		 * Remember we've already allowed for two characters
 		 * in the accounting in bufsize (but nowhere else).
 		 */
-		*buf = '\0';
+		*buf = '\1';
 		tmp[1] = fmt[-1];
 		if (!strftime(buf, bufsize + 2, tmp, tm))
 		{