c-common.c; strftime.c; question
Alan Perry
Alan.Perry at Eng.Sun.COM
Fri Aug 23 01:51:27 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?
If you are going to follow the standards, then strftime() should replace
%x with the "locale's appropriate date representation". That means that
the date representation should vary based on the locale that the caller
is running under. The default locale is the C locale.
I am at home and I do not keep the standards here, so I cannot look up
what that should be, but I can do it later tonight or tomorrow.
alan perry
former standards and libc guy
current zoneinfo and device driver interfaces guy
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