<time.h> in C99

[Markus Kuhn]

"Clive D.W. Feather" wrote on 1999-11-08 16:06 UTC:
> %x equivalent to ``%m/%d/%y''.

Great. The second most horrible numeric date notation in the Western
World has now found its way onto holy ISO C paper, in the 13th year
(anus horribilis? :) after the publication of ISO 8601. (The most
horrible one comes of course also from our American friends: Copyright
years given in roman numerals in the trailers of Hollywood movies.)

Markus

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