asctime.c

Paul Eggert eggert at CS.UCLA.EDU
Sun Aug 1 23:49:48 UTC 2004


"Clive D.W. Feather" <clive at demon.net> writes:

> It looks like the people who turned that specification into C89 got it
> slightly wrong. But I doubt it's going to get changed now.

Can't we easily fix things by changing the standard to say that it's
implementation-specified as to whether the format uses %d or %4d for
the year?  This would allow both fixed-width and and strict C89
implementations.  In practice, portable programs can't assume the C89
behavior now anyway.

> It looks like the best we'll get is to have HISTORICAL and
>STANDARDIZED versions, selected at compile time.

Sorry, I don't follow this remark -- are you referring to the tz code,
or to the standard itself?



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