[Emacs-bug-tracker] bug#8930: closed (date +%C)

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--- Begin Message --- Subject: date +%C Date: Fri, 24 Jun 2011 20:39:41 +0200
~$ date
vendredi 24 juin 2011, 20:32:50 (UTC+0200)
~$ date +%C
20


# 21st Century !



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--- Begin Message --- Subject: Re: date +%C Date: Fri, 24 Jun 2011 13:52:02 -0600 User-agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux x86_64; en-US; rv:1.9.2.17) Gecko/20110428 Fedora/3.1.10-1.fc14 Lightning/1.0b3pre Mnenhy/0.8.3 Thunderbird/3.1.10

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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