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Re: GCC bug with strftime
- From: Richard Troy <rtroy at sciencetools dot com>
- To: Cygwin <cygwin at cygwin dot com>
- Date: Tue, 14 Jan 2003 01:12:37 -0800 (PST)
- Subject: Re: GCC bug with strftime
Thanks, Corinna,
...Good thing I've already written a work-around! -smile-
Gee, you never know what you might learn by posting on the wrong list!
-wink-
RT
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Richard Troy, Chief Scientist
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On Tue, 14 Jan 2003, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
> Date: Tue, 14 Jan 2003 10:05:46 +0100
> From: Corinna Vinschen <corinna-cygwin@cygwin.com>
> Reply-To: cygwin@cygwin.com
> To: Cygwin <cygwin@cygwin.com>
> Subject: Re: GCC bug with strftime
>
> On Mon, Jan 13, 2003 at 07:00:07PM -0800, Richard Troy wrote:
> > > > The problem is that this call fails to return an hour:
> > > >
> > > > strftime(IT,key,"%m/%d/%y %l:%M %p", brokentime);
>
> I'm sorry to say that but...
>
> > The answer is yes, I have checked. The code works in my various RedHat
> > environments and has been for a long time. Also capital I is not what I
>
> ...just because it works under RH Linux it doesn't mean it's correct code.
> The %l specifier character is not covered by SUSv3:
>
> http://www.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/007904975/functions/strftime.html
>
> which means, your usage of %l is non-portable.
>
> Corinna
>
>
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