Date: Thu, 2 Mar 1995 20:22:35 +0100 (MET) From: J Wunsch <j@uriah.heep.sax.de> To: freebsd-bugs@FreeBSD.org (FreeBSD bugs list) Subject: Re: format %s missing in strftime Message-ID: <199503021922.UAA21488@uriah.heep.sax.de> In-Reply-To: <199503020949.KAA10065@labinfo.iet.unipi.it> from "Luigi Rizzo" at Mar 2, 95 10:49:15 am
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As Luigi Rizzo wrote: > > > %s is not standardized by ANSI. Nevertheless, we've got it in > > 1.1.5.1, so i've added it. > > Is there any alternative, standardized way to get the same output ? [Btw., %s has already been described in our man page, so i assume it has been forgotten some way.] I'm afraid, there's no standardized way. Remember, ANSI C cannot provide such, since it has to be platform-independent. There is no platform-independent idea of an ``Epoch''. I've checked either DG/UX as IRIX, they both don't grok %s. Since the standard does not say anything about undefined control sequences, it's acceptable to imply ``private'' semantics (we've already got a bunch more of them, see the ``kitchen sink'' comment in the source :-). -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)
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