Bauke Jan Douma <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Fri, May 14, 2004 at 11:27:53AM +0200, Andreas Schwab wrote: >> Bauke Jan Douma <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> >> > On Fri, May 14, 2004 at 12:51:20AM +0200, Andreas Schwab wrote: >> >> "duncan brown" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> >> >> >> > date +%C reports the 20th century, but we've been in the 21st since jan 01, >> >> > 00:00:00 >> >> >> >> %C century (year divided by 100 and truncated to an integer) [00-99] >> > >> > Surely this must be a Y2K-ism in the standard, no? >> >> Why? >> >> $ date +%C%y >> 2004 > > I am sorry, I answered under the assumption that you wrote > 'truncated to the closest integer'. > > Still, there is discrepancy in one common meaning of the word > 'century' and the meaning it has here, as the original > poster noted. Here it apparently means something like 'the > century part of the full year-number.'
The text is nearly identical to the one in the POSIX standard. Andreas. -- Andreas Schwab, SuSE Labs, [EMAIL PROTECTED] SuSE Linux AG, Maxfeldstra�e 5, 90409 N�rnberg, Germany Key fingerprint = 58CA 54C7 6D53 942B 1756 01D3 44D5 214B 8276 4ED5 "And now for something completely different." _______________________________________________ Bug-coreutils mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-coreutils
