Hi Is there a bug in the old-locale package? I tried the following simple program: import Data.Time import System.Locale main = do time <- getCurrentTime putStrLn $ formatTime defaultTimeLocale rfc822DateFormat time The above program prints: Mon, d Apr 2009 15:23:56 UTC Notice "Mon, d", where "d" should be the day of the month. Looking at the source code in the package, I see: rfc822DateFormat = "%a, %_d %b %Y %H:%M:%S %Z" So what's up with %_d? -- Deniz Dogan
On Mon, Apr 20, 2009 at 11:27 PM, Deniz Dogan <deniz.a.m.dogan@gmail.com> wrote:
Hi
Is there a bug in the old-locale package? I tried the following simple program:
import Data.Time import System.Locale
main = do time <- getCurrentTime putStrLn $ formatTime defaultTimeLocale rfc822DateFormat time
The above program prints:
Mon, d Apr 2009 15:23:56 UTC
Notice "Mon, d", where "d" should be the day of the month. Looking at the source code in the package, I see:
rfc822DateFormat = "%a, %_d %b %Y %H:%M:%S %Z"
So what's up with %_d?
That looks like an error to me. According to the date(1) manpage, an underbar pads with spaces. % date +"%a, %_d %b %Y %H:%M:%S %Z" Tue, 21 Apr 2009 00:25:50 SGT /M -- Magnus Therning (OpenPGP: 0xAB4DFBA4) magnus＠therning．org Jabber: magnus＠therning．org http://therning.org/magnus identi.ca|twitter: magthe
Magnus Therning wrote:
On Mon, Apr 20, 2009 at 11:27 PM, Deniz Dogan <deniz.a.m.dogan@gmail.com> wrote:
Hi
Is there a bug in the old-locale package? I tried the following simple program:
import Data.Time import System.Locale
main = do time <- getCurrentTime putStrLn $ formatTime defaultTimeLocale rfc822DateFormat time
The above program prints:
Mon, d Apr 2009 15:23:56 UTC
Notice "Mon, d", where "d" should be the day of the month. Looking at the source code in the package, I see:
rfc822DateFormat = "%a, %_d %b %Y %H:%M:%S %Z"
So what's up with %_d?
That looks like an error to me. According to the date(1) manpage, an underbar pads with spaces.
% date +"%a, %_d %b %Y %H:%M:%S %Z" Tue, 21 Apr 2009 00:25:50 SGT
It looks like old-locale and time have different ideas of date formats. Possibly this should be fixed in the time package. By the way, if old-locale is "old", what should be used instead? -- Ashley Yakeley
On Tue, Apr 21, 2009 at 4:31 PM, Ashley Yakeley <ashley@semantic.org> wrote:
Magnus Therning wrote:
On Mon, Apr 20, 2009 at 11:27 PM, Deniz Dogan <deniz.a.m.dogan@gmail.com> wrote:
Hi
Is there a bug in the old-locale package? I tried the following simple program:
import Data.Time import System.Locale
main = do time <- getCurrentTime putStrLn $ formatTime defaultTimeLocale rfc822DateFormat time
The above program prints:
Mon, d Apr 2009 15:23:56 UTC
Notice "Mon, d", where "d" should be the day of the month. Looking at the source code in the package, I see:
rfc822DateFormat = "%a, %_d %b %Y %H:%M:%S %Z"
So what's up with %_d?
That looks like an error to me. According to the date(1) manpage, an underbar pads with spaces.
% date +"%a, %_d %b %Y %H:%M:%S %Z" Tue, 21 Apr 2009 00:25:50 SGT
It looks like old-locale and time have different ideas of date formats. Possibly this should be fixed in the time package.
By the way, if old-locale is "old", what should be used instead?
I'm not sure old means deprecated... at least not yet :-) /M -- Magnus Therning (OpenPGP: 0xAB4DFBA4) magnus＠therning．org Jabber: magnus＠therning．org http://therning.org/magnus identi.ca|twitter: magthe
On Tue, Apr 21, 2009 at 10:31 AM, Ashley Yakeley<ashley@semantic.org> wrote:
Magnus Therning wrote:
On Mon, Apr 20, 2009 at 11:27 PM, Deniz Dogan <deniz.a.m.dogan@gmail.com> wrote:
Hi
Is there a bug in the old-locale package? I tried the following simple program:
import Data.Time import System.Locale
main = do time <- getCurrentTime putStrLn $ formatTime defaultTimeLocale rfc822DateFormat time
The above program prints:
Mon, d Apr 2009 15:23:56 UTC
Notice "Mon, d", where "d" should be the day of the month. Looking at the source code in the package, I see:
rfc822DateFormat = "%a, %_d %b %Y %H:%M:%S %Z"
So what's up with %_d?
That looks like an error to me. According to the date(1) manpage, an underbar pads with spaces.
% date +"%a, %_d %b %Y %H:%M:%S %Z" Tue, 21 Apr 2009 00:25:50 SGT
It looks like old-locale and time have different ideas of date formats. Possibly this should be fixed in the time package.
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.
Antoine
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
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