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From: Dima Dorfman <dima@trit.org>
Subject: Re: docs/31164: strftime is incorrect 
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The following reply was made to PR docs/31164; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: Dima Dorfman <dima@trit.org>
To: freebsd-gnats-submit@freebsd.org
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Subject: Re: docs/31164: strftime is incorrect 
Date: Mon, 15 Oct 2001 13:37:13 +0000

 Adding to audit-trail.
 
 Ulrich <ulrich@infopuls.com> wrote:
 > On Sun, Oct 14, 2001 at 11:20:08PM +0000, Dima Dorfman wrote:
 > > ulrich <ulrich@infopuls.com> wrote:
 > > > >Description:
 > > > man page for strftime
 > > > 
 > > > %a    is replaced by national representation of the abbreviated weekday
 > > >            name, where the abbreviation is the first three characters.
 > > > 
 > > > This is incorrect and should be
 > > > 
 > > > "... two characters and a space."
 > >       ^^^^^
 > > Is this part of the change?
 > 
 > I don't understand the question.
 > 
 > > > >How-To-Repeat:
 > > > date "+%a|"
 > > 
 > > I can't reproduce this:
 > > 
 > > 	dima@hornet% uname -r
 > > 	4.4-20011007-STABLE
 > > 	dima@hornet% date "+%a|"
 > > 	Sun|
 > > 
 > > 	dima@mirage% uname -r
 > > 	5.0-20010908-CURRENT
 > > 	dima@mirage% date "+%a|"
 > > 	Sun|
 > 
 > ----------------------------------------------------------------
 > 
 > uname -r
 > 4.1-RELEASE
 > 
 > date "+%a|"
 > Mo |
 > 
 > printenv | grep LC   
 > LC_MESSAGES=de_DE.ISO_8859-1
 > LC_TIME=de_DE.ISO_8859-1
 > LC_CTYPE=de_DE.ISO_8859-1
 > LC_COLLATE=de_DE.ISO_8859-1
 > 
 > ----------------------------------------------------------------
 > 
 > Seems that depending on the locale configuration the result is 
 > different. By now I regard the implementation of strftime as 
 > incorrect as the first three characters of the weekday in this 
 > case are "Mon". If there are intentionally different numbers of 
 > non blank characters for different locale settings the man page 
 > should say so.
 > 

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