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Re: strftime(3) oddities with %s, %z
Date: Mon, 31 Oct 2022 09:13:48 -0400 (EDT)
From: Mouse <mouse%Rodents-Montreal.ORG@localhost>
Message-ID: <202210311313.JAA10664%Stone.Rodents-Montreal.ORG@localhost>
| If %s were documented as printing the number that would be obtained by
| calling mktime() on the struct tm? That would (a) be telling the
| actual truth, (b) would match existing implementations, and (c) would
| not mislead people into thinking it did something it doesn't (and,
| without ABI and possibly API changes, can't).
That I agree with, our documentation is lacking. It should say that.
And more.
| Where is it documented what works and what doesn't?
UTSL ? The doc in POSIX (most of which is not being changed) is
better than our man page in this regard.
kre
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