<time.h> in C99

Clive D.W. Feather clive at demon.net
Mon Nov 8 16:34:39 UTC 1999


Markus Kuhn said:
>"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

Yup. All in the name of WG15 (*spit*) compatibility.

[In particular, ou WG14 liason appeared to miss this issue for N years
while wittering on about isblank() and suchlike.]

-- 
Clive D.W. Feather  | Work:  <clive at demon.net>   | Tel: +44 20 8371 1138
Internet Expert     | Home:  <clive at davros.org>  | Fax: +44 20 8371 1037
Demon Internet      | WWW: http://www.davros.org | Mobile: +44 7973 377646



More information about the tz mailing list