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- From: cbosgd!mark@seismo.css.gov (Mark Horton)
- Date: Wed, 24 Dec 86 17:50:53 est
- Organization: AT&T Medical Information Systems, Columbus
-
- >`%y' and `%Y' are unnecessary. `%y' could push the year-with-century,
- >and `%{100}' the value 100; invoking mod (`%%'? the name may prove
- >problematical)
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- Terminfo uses %m for mod to get around the obvious problem of using
- %% to get a literal %.
-
- Chris makes a very good point. Another observation is that there
- are lots of special pieces of the date you might want; rather than
- giving them a separate letter each, you could group them as
- parameters in a standard vector. Thus, %p1 might get the hours
- rather than %H. If you like the mnemonics, %pH might be a
- synonym. The idea here is that a vector is more easily extended,
- and you don't have to be so careful about using up the space of
- letters. This makes it easier to be printf-compatible.
-
- Mark
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- Volume-Number: Volume 9, Number 4
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