problems with the "%h" flag to the "date" command
Christopher Faylor
cgf@redhat.com
Wed Jan 15 09:58:00 GMT 2003
On Tue, Jan 14, 2003 at 08:37:54PM -0800, David A. Case wrote:
>Several of my scripts are failing because "date" doesn't seem to properly
>recognize the "%h" flag. According to the docs:
>
>% man date
>
>NAME
> date - print or set the system date and time
>..
>
> %b locale's abbreviated month name (Jan..Dec)
>..
> %h same as %b
>..
Apparently newlib isn't implementing the '%h' option in its version of
strftime. I'll submit a patch to newlib.
I'll also implement '%l' and '%k' while I'm at it.
A fix for this will be in 1.3.19, coming soon, to a...
No wait a minute, I forgot I was going to be mean and hold onto 1.3.19
for a while...
Bwaha, etc.
cgf
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