Re: fyi, strftime on Windows doesn't support %e

[Simon Josefsson]

Bruno Haible <address@hidden> writes:

> Simon Josefsson wrote:
>> I've applied the following to document this.
>
> Thanks. Documenting the bugs is good, even if we don't have a workaround
> in gnulib yet.
>
>> +Windows ...
>
> "Windows" is ambiguous, not a platform name: we have two platforms there,
> Cygwin and mingw. Can you please specify the platform names precisely?

It appears it is the Windows C runtime library that has the problem,
see:

http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.network.gnutls.general/1184

I've pushed this patch, what do you think?

/Simon

diff --git a/doc/posix-functions/strftime.texi 
b/doc/posix-functions/strftime.texi
index 01532dc..1b8039e 100644
--- a/doc/posix-functions/strftime.texi
+++ b/doc/posix-functions/strftime.texi
@@ -13,8 +13,9 @@ Portability problems fixed by Gnulib:
 Portability problems not fixed by Gnulib:
 @itemize
 @item
-Windows does not support the non-SUS %e specifier (and possibly the
-other non-SUS specifiers too).
+The Windows C runtime library (which is used by MinGW) does not
+support the non-SUS %e specifier (and possibly the other non-SUS
+specifiers too).
 @end itemize
 
 Extension: Gnulib offers a module @samp{strftime} that provides an