[issue39103] [linux] strftime renders %Y with only 3 characters

Paul Ganssle added the comment: This is a duplicate of issue 13305. Right now we have some shims around `strftime` to improve consistency in some situations and for other reasons, but mostly we just call the libc version. There is an open issue from 2008 (#3173) to ship our own

[issue39103] [linux] strftime renders %Y with only 3 characters

Brett Cannon added the comment: Due note, though, that there's a difference in the implementation of strftime versus strptime, as the former (at least the last time I looked ages ago) uses the libc version of the function and thus probably doesn't try to smooth out differences like this,

[issue39103] [linux] strftime renders %Y with only 3 characters

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[issue39103] [linux] strftime renders %Y with only 3 characters

New submission from Jason R. Coombs : On Python 3.8, there's a difference between how datetime.datetime.strftime renders %Y for years < 1000 between Linux and other platforms. # Linux $ docker run -it python python -c 'import datetime; print(datetime.date(900,1,1).strftime("%Y"))'