On 06/24/2011 01:52 PM, Eric Blake wrote: > %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.
That said, you found a bug in POSIX. %C can be larger than 99, since it maps to the same construct in strftime(). http://austingroupbugs.net/view.php?id=466 -- Eric Blake ebl...@redhat.com +1-801-349-2682 Libvirt virtualization library http://libvirt.org
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