On Sun, 2009-06-28 at 19:46 -0500, Antoine Latter wrote:
old-time handles the padding by eating it. The attached patch does the same for the time package.
From reading the date(1) manpage, there are some other parts of the format-spec not supported. But we at least parse the format-specs we ship with.
I have decided to implement the glibc-specific formatting flags, "_-0^#". Do a "man strftime" on a glibc system to see. I compare with the system strftime as a test (which won't work on a non-glibc system, but I think that's OK). The trouble is that the glibc behaviour of "#" is bizarre. Sometimes it converts to upper case, sometimes it converts to lower case, and sometimes it does nothing. Despite what the man page says, it never "swaps" the case, even for %Z. I am tempted to have "#" always convert to lower case. This is the most predictable and useful behaviour. -- Ashley Yakeley