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bug#8930: date +%C
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Eric Blake |
Subject: |
bug#8930: date +%C |
Date: |
Fri, 24 Jun 2011 13:52:02 -0600 |
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tag 8930 notabug
thanks
> ~$ *date*
> vendredi 24 juin 2011, 20:32:50 (UTC+0200)
> ~$ *date +%C*
> 20
>
>
> *# 21st Century !*
>
Thanks for the report. However, this is not a bug.
%C does not mean the century in common parlance, rather, according to
POSIX, it means:
http://pubs.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799/utilities/date.html
>
> %C
> Century (a year divided by 100 and truncated to an integer) as a decimal
> number [00,99].
Yes, the mnemonic is using century for lack of a better term, but it is
correctly printing all but the last two digits of the year.
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Eric Blake address@hidden +1-801-349-2682
Libvirt virtualization library http://libvirt.org
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