From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Paul Eggert Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: fromat-time-string: %p vs %P (feels backward: Date: Mon, 24 Apr 2017 18:31:12 -0700 Organization: UCLA Computer Science Department Message-ID: <35497558-d629-1c09-ed5b-b0eb00f59e34@cs.ucla.edu> References: NNTP-Posting-Host: blaine.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: blaine.gmane.org 1493083915 15220 195.159.176.226 (25 Apr 2017 01:31:55 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@blaine.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 25 Apr 2017 01:31:55 +0000 (UTC) User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:52.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/52.0 To: raman , emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue Apr 25 03:31:50 2017 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by blaine.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1d2pKY-0003qM-GW for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 25 Apr 2017 03:31:50 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:46608 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1d2pKe-0003Ri-F2 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 24 Apr 2017 21:31:56 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:45765) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1d2pK3-0003RP-Df for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 24 Apr 2017 21:31:20 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1d2pK0-0001t2-9J for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 24 Apr 2017 21:31:19 -0400 Original-Received: from zimbra.cs.ucla.edu ([131.179.128.68]:37960) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.0:DHE_RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1d2pK0-0001ra-2a for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 24 Apr 2017 21:31:16 -0400 Original-Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by zimbra.cs.ucla.edu (Postfix) with ESMTP id 263EF160060; Mon, 24 Apr 2017 18:31:14 -0700 (PDT) Original-Received: from zimbra.cs.ucla.edu ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (zimbra.cs.ucla.edu [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10032) with ESMTP id 28VzHhN-n-kq; Mon, 24 Apr 2017 18:31:13 -0700 (PDT) Original-Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by zimbra.cs.ucla.edu (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6D0BC160062; Mon, 24 Apr 2017 18:31:13 -0700 (PDT) X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at zimbra.cs.ucla.edu Original-Received: from zimbra.cs.ucla.edu ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (zimbra.cs.ucla.edu [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10026) with ESMTP id MrpXCx7PI6TD; Mon, 24 Apr 2017 18:31:13 -0700 (PDT) Original-Received: from Penguin.CS.UCLA.EDU (Penguin.CS.UCLA.EDU [131.179.64.200]) by zimbra.cs.ucla.edu (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 33E02160060; Mon, 24 Apr 2017 18:31:13 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: Content-Language: en-US X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 3.x [fuzzy] X-Received-From: 131.179.128.68 X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.21 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "Emacs-devel" Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:214277 Archived-At: On 04/24/2017 05:11 PM, raman wrote: > In the argument to format-time-string, %p produces am/pm in upper-case, > whereas %P produces lower-case. It's awkward, but it's consistent with how glibc strftime works. For what it's worth, POSIX specifies %p to output upper-case in the C locale, and users likely expect that behavior.