* fromat-time-string: %p vs %P (feels backward:
@ 2017-04-25 0:11 raman
2017-04-25 1:31 ` Paul Eggert
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From: raman @ 2017-04-25 0:11 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: emacs-devel
See the following when evaluated in the *scratch* buffer on Emacs 26
built from head.
In the argument to format-time-string, %p produces am/pm in upper-case,
whereas %P produces lower-case.
(format-time-string "%p")
"PM"
(format-time-string "%P")
"pm"
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* Re: fromat-time-string: %p vs %P (feels backward:
2017-04-25 0:11 fromat-time-string: %p vs %P (feels backward: raman
@ 2017-04-25 1:31 ` Paul Eggert
2017-04-25 2:58 ` raman
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From: Paul Eggert @ 2017-04-25 1:31 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: raman, emacs-devel
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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* Re: fromat-time-string: %p vs %P (feels backward:
2017-04-25 1:31 ` Paul Eggert
@ 2017-04-25 2:58 ` raman
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From: raman @ 2017-04-25 2:58 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: Paul Eggert; +Cc: emacs-devel
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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