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Date:	Wed, 15 Jan 2003 00:08:30 -0500
From:	Christopher Faylor <cgf AT redhat DOT com>
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Subject:	Re: problems with the "%h" flag to the "date" command
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On Tue, Jan 14, 2003 at 08:37:54PM -0800, David A.  Case wrote:
>Several of my scripts are failing because "date" doesn't seem to properly
>recognize the "%h" flag.  According to the docs:
>
>% man date
>
>NAME
>       date - print or set the system date and time
>..
>
>       %b     locale's abbreviated month name (Jan..Dec)
>..
>       %h     same as %b
>..

Apparently newlib isn't implementing the '%h' option in its version of
strftime.  I'll submit a patch to newlib.

I'll also implement '%l' and '%k' while I'm at it.

A fix for this will be in 1.3.19, coming soon, to a...

No wait a minute, I forgot I was going to be mean and hold onto 1.3.19
for a while...

Bwaha, etc.

cgf

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