Ezio Melotti added the comment:
> About Elena Oat's patch issue13305.diff: I'm not sure that
> strftime("%4Y") works on all platforms
It doesn't, that's what the patch is trying to document.
AFAICT it works on my Linux (but not on yours), it gives '4Y' on Mac, and
raises an error on Windows. This should depend on the libc used by system, so
the same OS can give different results depending on which libc it uses, and the
only sure thing is that %4Y is not a portable solution.
FWIW the patch LGTM (except a couple minor nits -- zero-pad should be
hyphenated and there should be a double space after the dot), but I'm not sure
if it's better mentioning platforms at all or just being vague and say that it
works on some platforms but not others and leave up to the user figuring out
where.
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