bug#40586: date and '%-N' does not appear to remove leading zeros anymore, but trailing zeros.

2020-04-12 Thread Paul Eggert
On 4/12/20 1:51 PM, Drake Jacovian wrote: Obviously, removing trailing zeroes will changes it value. %-N is intended to be used after a decimal point, so removing trailing zeros does not change its value in its intended use.

bug#40586: date and '%-N' does not appear to remove leading zeros anymore, but trailing zeros.

2020-04-12 Thread Drake Jacovian
Using... date (GNU coreutils) 8.32 uname -a Linux server 4.19.114-1-MANJARO #1 SMP Thu Apr 2 17:04:36 UTC 2020 x86_64 GNU/Linux I have noticed that %-N when used with the data command no longer appears to always remove leading zeros, instead it appears to be removing trailing zeros?