Merge branch 'maint'

* maint:
  improve error message in config.c
  t4018-diff-funcname: add cpp xfuncname pattern to syntax test
  Work around BSD whose typeof(tv.tv_sec) != time_t
  git-am.txt: reword extra headers in message body
  git-am.txt: Use date or value instead of time or timestamp
  git-am.txt: add an 'a', say what 'it' is, simplify a sentence
  dir.c: Fix two minor grammatical errors in comments
  git-svn: fix a sloppy Getopt::Long usage

1 files changed, 3 insertions, 1 deletions

diff --git a/date.c b/date.c
index 1165d30adf..409a17d464 100644
--- a/date.c
+++ b/date.c
@@ -871,13 +871,15 @@ unsigned long approxidate(const char *date)
 	int number = 0;
 	struct tm tm, now;
 	struct timeval tv;
+	time_t time_sec;
 	char buffer[50];
 
 	if (parse_date(date, buffer, sizeof(buffer)) > 0)
 		return strtoul(buffer, NULL, 10);
 
 	gettimeofday(&tv, NULL);
-	localtime_r(&tv.tv_sec, &tm);
+	time_sec = tv.tv_sec;
+	localtime_r(&time_sec, &tm);
 	now = tm;
 	for (;;) {
 		unsigned char c = *date;