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bug#34608: date +%+4C is unimplemented, contrary to POSIX
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Eric Blake |
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bug#34608: date +%+4C is unimplemented, contrary to POSIX |
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Thu, 21 Feb 2019 11:10:06 -0600 |
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POSIX requires the '+' flag in %C to output padding with leading 0, and
additionally to add a +/- indicator if the minimum field width is larger
than 2 bytes. Thus:
date -d 0001-01-01 +.%+4C.
should produce ".+000.", but currently it produces ".%+4C." because the
+ flag is unimplemented.
See also http://austingroupbugs.net/view.php?id=1184
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