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From: "Tim J. Robbins" <tim@robbins.dropbear.id.au>
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The following reply was made to PR docs/28699; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: "Tim J. Robbins" <tim@robbins.dropbear.id.au>
To: freebsd-gnats-submit@FreeBSD.ORG
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Subject: Re: docs/28699
Date: Mon, 14 Jan 2002 03:01:26 +1100

 strptime(3) does not accept "a space followed by a single digit" for %d.
 It chews off up to 2 digits and uses them. It doesn't do anything about
 whitespace.
 
 tim@raven$ date -j -f "%d" " 1" +%d
 Failed conversion of `` 1'' using format ``%d''
 date: illegal time format
 usage: date [-jnu] [-d dst] [-r seconds] [-t west] [-v[+|-]val[ymwdHMS]] ... 
             [-f fmt date | [[[[[cc]yy]mm]dd]HH]MM[.ss]] [+format]
 
 
 Tim

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