The decision to make C strings null terminated with implied length instead of length + blob continues to trip us up, 30+ years later. There's a good reason the "safe" versions of those functions all take length parameters. But way back when this approach was chosen, I don't think the state of the art could fully predict this outcome.
But also, "strings" and "time" are actually very complex concepts, and these functions operate on often outdated assumptions about those underlying abstractions.
But also, "strings" and "time" are actually very complex concepts, and these functions operate on often outdated assumptions about those underlying abstractions.