On 2/21/19 9:37 PM, Paul Eggert wrote: > Eric Blake wrote: > >> date -d 0001-01-01 +.%+4C. >> >> should produce ".+000.", but currently it produces ".%+4C." because the >> + flag is unimplemented. >> >> See also http://austingroupbugs.net/view.php?id=1184 > > Surely this bug should be reported against strftime, not against 'date'. > POSIX does require that strftime behave that way, but it does not place > a similar requirement on 'date'. >
That used to be true, but now POSIX wants date to behave as if it uses strftime: http://austingroupbugs.net/view.php?id=466 -- Eric Blake, Principal Software Engineer Red Hat, Inc. +1-919-301-3226 Virtualization: qemu.org | libvirt.org
