c-common.c; strftime.c; question
Alex Livingston
alex at agsm.unsw.edu.au
Fri Aug 23 00:19:39 UTC 1996
>And a year-2000 related question: might it be best to change strftime so
>that "%x" yields, for example,
> 1996-08-22
>rather than
> 08/22/96
>as is currently true?
Absolutely! It infuriates me that such a result should ever be returned.
Any concession to the US-only
we'll-do-it-our-way-and-never-change-and-claim-to-be-best-no-matter-how-bad-
it-is all-numerical way of writing dates should be eliminated.
Alex LIVINGSTON
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