Date: Thu, 04 May 2023 07:32:34 -0700
On Wednesday, 3 May 2023 03:02:04 PDT Simon Hill via Std-Proposals wrote:
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Quick note: while not in POSIX, %s is a standard extension in glibc[1],
FreeBSD libc[2], NetBSD[3], OpenBSD[4] (probably because 4.4BSD[5] had it),
Solaris[6] and QNX[7] to mean:
%s
Number of seconds since the Epoch (1970–01–01).
If compatibility with strftime is desired, then please don't use %s. Maybe use
a modified second (%ES) or explicitly forcing the precision to zero.
[1] https://man7.org/linux/man-pages/man3/strftime.3.html
[2] https://man.freebsd.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=strftime&sektion=3
[3] https://man.freebsd.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=strftime&manpath=NetBSD+9.3
[4] https://man.freebsd.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=strftime&manpath=OpenBSD+7.3
[5] https://man.freebsd.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=strftime&manpath=4.4BSD+Lite2
[6] https://docs.oracle.com/cd/E36784_01/html/E36874/strftime-3c.html
[7] https://www.qnx.com/developers/docs/7.1/#com.qnx.doc.neutrino.lib_ref/
topic/s/strftime.html
>
Quick note: while not in POSIX, %s is a standard extension in glibc[1],
FreeBSD libc[2], NetBSD[3], OpenBSD[4] (probably because 4.4BSD[5] had it),
Solaris[6] and QNX[7] to mean:
%s
Number of seconds since the Epoch (1970–01–01).
If compatibility with strftime is desired, then please don't use %s. Maybe use
a modified second (%ES) or explicitly forcing the precision to zero.
[1] https://man7.org/linux/man-pages/man3/strftime.3.html
[2] https://man.freebsd.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=strftime&sektion=3
[3] https://man.freebsd.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=strftime&manpath=NetBSD+9.3
[4] https://man.freebsd.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=strftime&manpath=OpenBSD+7.3
[5] https://man.freebsd.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=strftime&manpath=4.4BSD+Lite2
[6] https://docs.oracle.com/cd/E36784_01/html/E36874/strftime-3c.html
[7] https://www.qnx.com/developers/docs/7.1/#com.qnx.doc.neutrino.lib_ref/
topic/s/strftime.html
-- Thiago Macieira - thiago (AT) macieira.info - thiago (AT) kde.org Software Architect - Intel DCAI Cloud Engineering
Received on 2023-05-04 14:32:36