From d291045e9acdbee20f3f41f6d48ad00ff5bd7d1a Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Otto Moerbeek <otto.moerbeek@open-xchange.com>
Date: Wed, 6 Apr 2022 11:54:04 +0200
Subject: [PATCH] Coverity 1487743: Unchecked return value

---
 pdns/misc.cc | 6 ++++--
 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/pdns/misc.cc b/pdns/misc.cc
index 92318063f6..cc82005588 100644
--- a/pdns/misc.cc
+++ b/pdns/misc.cc
@@ -232,8 +232,10 @@ string nowTime()
   localtime_r(&now, &tm);
   char buffer[30];
   // YYYY-mm-dd HH:MM:SS TZOFF
-  strftime(buffer, sizeof(buffer), "%F %T %z", &tm);
-  buffer[sizeof(buffer)-1] = '\0';
+  size_t ret = strftime(buffer, sizeof(buffer), "%F %T %z", &tm);
+  if (ret == 0) {
+    buffer[0] = '\0';
+  }
   return string(buffer);
 }
 
-- 
2.47.2