strftime et al.

[Moderator, John Quarterman]

From: cbosgd!mark at seismo.css.gov (Mark Horton)
Date: Wed, 24 Dec 86 17:50:53 est
Organization: AT&T Medical Information Systems, Columbus

>`%y' and `%Y' are unnecessary.  `%y' could push the year-with-century,
>and `%{100}' the value 100; invoking mod (`%%'? the name may prove
>problematical)

Terminfo uses %m for mod to get around the obvious problem of using
%% to get a literal %.

Chris makes a very good point.  Another observation is that there
are lots of special pieces of the date you might want; rather than
giving them a separate letter each, you could group them as
parameters in a standard vector.  Thus, %p1 might get the hours
rather than %H.  If you like the mnemonics, %pH might be a
synonym.  The idea here is that a vector is more easily extended,
and you don't have to be so careful about using up the space of
letters.  This makes it easier to be printf-compatible.

	Mark


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