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Re: date Feature Request - day of month as 1st, 2nd, 3rd...
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Eric Blake |
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Re: date Feature Request - day of month as 1st, 2nd, 3rd... |
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Fri, 21 Aug 2009 13:13:47 -0600 |
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According to address@hidden on 8/21/2009 10:46 AM:
> It would be great to have the option to display a date with the
> appropriate suffix, e.g. 22nd August, especially now that these
> display options carry through to the panel clock in GUIs such as
> XFCE.
>
> It appears that %E is still free as a potential format string for
> the addition of such a nice feature! :)
Unfortunately, %E is already claimed as a format modifier (as in %Ec as
the locale's alternative date and time representation).
You may want to raise your proposal with the glibc team first in their
strftime(3) interface; coreutils is hesitant to add new % modifiers in
date(1) without prior practice from C libraries.
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Don't work too hard, make some time for fun as well!
Eric Blake address@hidden
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