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bug#15816: 24.3; (format-time-string "%h") returns "" instead of month
From: |
Eli Zaretskii |
Subject: |
bug#15816: 24.3; (format-time-string "%h") returns "" instead of month |
Date: |
Wed, 06 Nov 2013 12:16:00 +0200 |
> From: andrea.rossetti@gmail.com
> Date: Wed, 06 Nov 2013 01:05:45 +0100
>
> when I execute
>
> (format-time-string "%h")
>
> I get a return value of "" instead of "nov" meaning
> November, the current date month. On the contrary,
> execution of
>
> (format-time-string "%b")
>
> correctly returns "nov". I suppose this is
> due to the runtime of my Windows installation
> (an ordinary Windows 7 64-bit) not supporting
> C99 format modifiers of the C function "strftime".
Indeed, Windows version of strftime doesn't support %h.
> If it affects other users too, my suggestion is to
> simply add a note in the docstring of format-time-string,
> saying that modifier "%h" requires a C99-compliant
> runtime.
Done.