X-Recipient: archive-cygwin@delorie.com X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Message-ID: <1603.81.17.205.14.1218521388.squirrel@webmail2.nebula.fi> In-Reply-To: <48A12609.C1A1929B@dessent.net> References: <1454.81.17.205.14.1218517172.squirrel@webmail2.nebula.fi> <48A12609.C1A1929B@dessent.net> Date: Tue, 12 Aug 2008 09:09:48 +0300 (EEST) Subject: Re: changed behaviour in date command From: "Nicholas Volk" To: cygwin@cygwin.com User-Agent: SquirrelMail/1.4.10a MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain;charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-IsSubscribed: yes Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@cygwin.com Hi Brian, Thanks for the reply. I'll switch to %H. My mistake. br, Nicholas > Nicholas Volk wrote: > >> After I updated cygwin today (bash updated) this no longer works as >> such, >> because the behaviour of %k has changed: instead of the usual "07" I now >> get " 7". Is this intentional? At least in my opinion the new behaviour >> is >> worse than the original. > > The date command is part of coreutils and updating bash should have > nothing to do with it. > >> (The fix itself is easy: tar -jcvf api-`date '+%Y%m%d%k%M' | tr ' ' >> '0'`.tbz files ) > > Why not just use %H? The entire purpose of %k as far as I can tell is > to have an alternative to %H that is space padded instead of zero > padded. And %H is standard while %k is a GNU extension. > > I spent a little bit of time in gitk trying to see if anything had > changed recently in coreutils or gnulib, but going all the way back to > the initial version of lib/strftime.c in gnulib from 1992-11-01, %k has > always meant a space padded version of %H: > . > > Brian > > -- > Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple > Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html > Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html > FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ > > -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/