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From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
To: "Rüdiger Sonderfeld" <ruediger@c-plusplus.de>
Cc: andrea.rossetti@gmail.com, 15816@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#15816: 24.3; (format-time-string "%h") returns "" instead of month
Date: Wed, 06 Nov 2013 19:26:56 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <8361s57867.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <3369232.afZtqa4znz@descartes>

> From: Rüdiger Sonderfeld <ruediger@c-plusplus.de>
> Cc: andrea.rossetti@gmail.com, 15816-done@debbugs.gnu.org
> Date: Wed, 06 Nov 2013 14:31:04 +0100
> 
> I just compared the docstring to the manpage of strftime on GNU/Linux and the 
> following symbols are not  ANSI C
> 
> - %C is SU
> - %G,%g are TZ
> - %h is SU (%b)
> - %e is SU (%d with blanks)
> - %u is SU
> - %V is SU
> - %k is TZ (%H with blanks)
> - %l is TZ (%I with blanks)
> - %N not in manpage or glibc manual
> - %z is SU
> - %s is TZ
> - %D is SU ("%m/%d/%y", should not be used)
> - %T is SU ("%H:%M:%S")
> - %R is SU ("%H:%M")
> - %r is SU ("%I:%M:%S %p")
> - %t is SU (\t)
> - %n is SU (\n)
> 
> (SU :: Single UNIX Specification and TZ :: Olson's timezone package)
> 
> Maybe we should not mention %h, %D, %T, %R, %r, %t, %n at all because these 
> can be replaced by the portable alternatives mentioned.  The rest might be a 
> bit tricky to replace.  Could you try which of them work on Windows at all?  
> (Sorry I don't have a current Windows Emacs available.)

All of them are supported, with the single exception of %r.





  parent reply	other threads:[~2013-11-06 17:26 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2013-11-06  0:05 bug#15816: 24.3; (format-time-string "%h") returns "" instead of month andrea.rossetti
2013-11-06  0:48 ` Stefan Monnier
2013-11-06  6:46   ` Bastien
2013-11-06 10:16     ` Eli Zaretskii
2013-11-06 10:16 ` Eli Zaretskii
2013-11-06 13:31   ` Rüdiger Sonderfeld
2013-11-06 14:16     ` Andreas Schwab
2013-11-06 17:12     ` Stefan Monnier
2013-11-06 17:26     ` Eli Zaretskii [this message]
2013-11-16  0:01       ` Rüdiger Sonderfeld
2013-12-11 14:42         ` Rüdiger Sonderfeld

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