Document strftime %Ob and %OB as C2X features

Joseph Myers joseph@codesourcery.com
Thu Aug 22 15:11:00 GMT 2019


On Thu, 22 Aug 2019, Rafal Luzynski wrote:

> Thank you, Joseph.  This looks good.  While talking about this, I received
> few complains that this piece of documentation which I wrote 1.5 years
> ago is sometimes ambiguous.  It is clear that "%B" is for a full date
> and "%OB" is for a standalone name of a month.  People had questions:
> 
> * what if there is only a day and a month name (not a complete date so
>   people thought it should be "%OB" but the answer is "%B" because there is
>   a day and a month);
> * what if there is only a month name and a year (it's not just a month
>   standalone so people thought it should be "%B" but the answer is "%OB"
>   because there is no day);
> * what if some languages (which I'm not aware of) have different rules?
> 
> Is this the right moment to improve the documentation about this?

I think improvements to this documentation are welcome at any time.

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Joseph S. Myers
joseph@codesourcery.com



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