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Re: Cygwin strptime() is missing "%s" which strftime() has
- From: "Lavrentiev, Anton (NIH/NLM/NCBI) [C]" <lavr at ncbi dot nlm dot nih dot gov>
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- Date: Mon, 24 Jul 2017 19:45:41 +0000
- Subject: Re: Cygwin strptime() is missing "%s" which strftime() has
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> Demand. I patches strftime to add %s because Coreutils wanted it. But
> coreutils doesn't use strptime, so I had no reason to add it.
Well, I was bringing up a point of API inconsistency, hoping that it'd serve as an
implicit request for an improvement so that strptime() gets its "%s"...
Maybe coreutils did not need "%s" for strptime, but dateutils certainly do, as:
> date +"%s" | strptime "%s"
does not work on Cygwin. That looks odd.
Anton Lavrentiev
Contractor NIH/NLM/NCBI
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