On Sun, Dec 12, 2004 at 07:50:35PM +0000, Stefan Schumacher wrote:
> Also sprach Mark E. Perkins (perkinsm@bway.net)
> > On 12/12/04 12:20, ipt@scraemon.org wrote:
> > >The date command isn't giving output consistent with its man page.  This
> > >command, 'date +%c/%m/%d', should display 
> > >
> > >	2004/12/12
> > >
> > >instead it displays
> > >
> > >	Sun Dec 12 11:57:24 2004/12/12
> > >
> > >This used to display correctly in versions past, although I don't
> > >remember which versions exactly.  I'm running 2.0 right now.
> > 
> > I can't comment on 2.0 behavior, since I don't have it running anywhere 
> > just yet. But I tried this on 1.5.something and 1.6.2 and get the same 
> > result that you did. I can get the result you *want* with 'date +%Y/%m/%d' 
> > on both of those systems. My reading of the man page for strftime(3) 
> > suggests that all is as it should be.
> 
> Right, it shows the same dateformat, since STRFTIME(3) reads:
> 
>  %c    is replaced by the locale's appropriate date and time
>  	   representation.
> 			
> Use +y/+Y instead
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My mistake.  I confused the use of cc, to set the date, with the
formatting option used by strftime(3), %c.  %C is synonomous to cc.  To
everyone who pointed out my error, you have my appreciation.
-- 

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