Eric,

"Width is specified by an optional decimal number immediately preceding the 
verb. If absent, the width is whatever is necessary to represent the value. 
"

https://golang.org/pkg/fmt/

Width is two.

Peter

On Tuesday, August 28, 2018 at 12:09:26 PM UTC-4, Eric Raymond wrote:
>
> Under Go 1.10.1, feeding an 0 value to a %+02d specifier sometimes yields  
> "+0", not "+00". The attached tiny Go program may reproduce this behavior.  
> I say "may" because I first observed it in a series of unit tests of date 
> format conversions - in different format strings %+02d expanded 
> differently.  I haven't found a pattern to this, or I'd report it. On my 
> system this program, at least, has repeatable behavior.
>
> If this behavior were consistent, I'm not sure it would be a bug. It's 
> possible that the sign is supposed to be counted as part of the number 
> width; if so, it's an interesting question whether this is the right thing 
> when explicit sign is forced by +.  The documentation is unclear.
>
> The apparent inconsistency worries me.  There may be some state in the 
> form,at-interpretation code that is not always tracked correctly.
>
> In accordance with the Contribution Guidelines, I'm tossing  the question 
> out here for a sanity check before throwing it on the bugtracker.  Have 
> there been any similar reports?
>

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