From: raman <raman@google.com>
To: Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: fromat-time-string: %p vs %P (feels backward:
Date: Mon, 24 Apr 2017 19:58:56 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <p91a875qjkf.fsf@raman-glaptop2> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <35497558-d629-1c09-ed5b-b0eb00f59e34@cs.ucla.edu> (Paul Eggert's message of "Mon, 24 Apr 2017 18:31:12 -0700")
Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu> writes:
Interesting. I later realized that the documentation for
format-time-string only specifies the lower case version i.e. %p.
> 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.
>
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2017-04-25 0:11 fromat-time-string: %p vs %P (feels backward: raman
2017-04-25 1:31 ` Paul Eggert
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