GCC bug with strftime

[Corinna Vinschen]

On Mon, Jan 13, 2003 at 07:00:07PM -0800, Richard Troy wrote:
> > > The problem is that this call fails to return an hour:
> > >
> > > strftime(IT,key,"%m/%d/%y %l:%M %p", brokentime);

I'm sorry to say that but...

> The answer is yes, I have checked. The code works in my various RedHat
> environments and has been for a long time. Also capital I is not what I

...just because it works under RH Linux it doesn't mean it's correct code.
The %l specifier character is not covered by SUSv3:

http://www.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/007904975/functions/strftime.html

which means, your usage of %l is non-portable.

Corinna

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