From: Paul Eggert <eggert@twinsun.com>
Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Bug in format-time-string in emacs 21.1?
Date: Tue, 12 Mar 2002 14:21:14 -0800 (PST) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <200203122221.g2CMLEX10014@shade.twinsun.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <m3vgc18o5h.fsf@nyaumo.btinternet.com> (jasonr@gnu.org)
> From: Jason Rumney <jasonr@gnu.org>
> Date: 12 Mar 2002 21:35:54 +0000
>
> Rather than putting a note in PROBLEMS specific to %h on Windows, it
> might be better to modify the doc-string for format-time-string, to
> make it clear which specifiers are guaranteed to work, and which are
> POSIX.2 or GNU extensions, and will only work on plaforms that
> support them.
This suggestion is a bit obsolescent, as %h is required by the current
C standard (C99). And POSIX.2 is now obsolete; it has been folded
into POSIX.1 (as of POSIX 1003.1-2001).
I suggest adding a sentence like "Not all platforms support
locale-specific formats" to the format-time-string doc string; that
will document the general problem. I don't think it's worth
documenting all the ins and outs of the various standards and
implementations in the format-time-string doc; that will consume too
much space and won't be all that useful.
> Alternatively, we could introduce more conditional blocks to
> strftime.c to do something sensible
That would be a pain to support reliably. There are lots of little
gotchas in this area. It's simpler just to let the underlying
strftime handle (or mishandle) locale-related stuff.
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[not found] ` <m3n0xep8u8.fsf@Janik.cz>
2002-03-12 21:35 ` Bug in format-time-string in emacs 21.1? Jason Rumney
2002-03-12 22:21 ` Paul Eggert [this message]
2002-03-12 22:56 ` Jason Rumney
2002-03-12 23:37 ` Paul Eggert
2002-03-13 19:49 ` Jason Rumney
2002-03-14 0:37 ` Paul Eggert
2002-03-13 10:59 ` Richard Stallman
2002-03-13 22:13 ` Jason Rumney
2002-03-14 0:13 ` Paul Eggert
2002-03-14 22:28 ` Jason Rumney
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