Glen Wiley writes:
>
> Why not use locale to format the date, that way everyone can be
> happy. I would rake a look at LC_TIME to determine how to print
> the date. On Solaris, take a look at the man page at locale(5)
> for a primer.
Because the contents of the LC_TIME locale aren't specified in standard
C and a varying format would make it difficult to mechanically parse the
output (which is the only concern I have about changing the format).
I'd suggest simply using the ISO 8601 date format: YYYY-MM-DD.
-Larry Jones
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