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Date: Tue, 12 Aug 2008 09:09:48 +0300 (EEST)
Subject: Re: changed behaviour in date command
From: "Nicholas Volk" <nvolk AT bitlips DOT fi>
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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:
> <http://git.savannah.gnu.org/gitweb/?p=gnulib.git;a=blob;f=lib/strftime.c;h=cc4953e68aaf9bc2cabdc9521ae2d99c220374bf;hb=43e78b970f396160a887c9da94531569faeda8a0>.
>
> Brian
>
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