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bug#34608: date +%+4C is unimplemented, contrary to POSIX


From: Paul Eggert
Subject: bug#34608: date +%+4C is unimplemented, contrary to POSIX
Date: Thu, 21 Feb 2019 19:37:46 -0800
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Eric Blake wrote:

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

Surely this bug should be reported against strftime, not against 'date'. POSIX does require that strftime behave that way, but it does not place a similar requirement on 'date'.





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