Re: [bug-gawk] Gawk manual: 9.1.5 Time Functions, strftime([format [, timestamp [, utc-flag]]])

[Hermann Peifer]

On 2013-02-03 16:21, Aharon Robbins wrote:
> Hi Hermann.
>
> Andy's answer is correct. The idea is that with no arguments strftime()
> defaults to the value of PROCINFO["strftime"] and the current time of day,
> but if you have a specific timestamp, you need to also supply a format
> value.
>
> However, having it available from PROCINFO["stftime"] lets you not have
> to remember (or look up) the values for the format string, you can just
> do
>
>         timestamp = ... # get from whatever
>         print strftime(PROCINFO["strftime"], timestamp)
>
> Thanks,
>
> Arnold


Thanks to both of you for your replies. I see that I was 
misinterpreting the manual.

Regards, Hermann