tag 24077 wontfix stop On 28/07/16 06:27, Paul Eggert wrote: > Eric Blake wrote: >> As a compromise, can we mention that MMDDhhmm[[CCYY][.ss]] output can be >> produced by the %m%d%H%M%C%y.%S format, as an additional line of text? > > Unfortunately that format does not work when the century is outside the range > 00-99.
:) > Whatever we do, we should do consistently in 'date' and 'touch' and etc. > The POSIX spec uses all lower case, which is confusing in a different way but > is > at least standardized. Well it just a representation of placeholders for numbers. There's nothing "standard" about it. IMHO as long as it's unambiguous it's fine. Though I think overall ambiguity is reduced here, I don't feel strongly about it, so will revert.
