On 11/22/11 4:53 PM, Greg Wooledge wrote: > This is a feature request, rather than a bug. Bash 4.2's printf command > has a lovely %(datefmt)T feature that allows it to print out formatted > timestamps using the underlying operating system's strftime(3) routine. > It even allows bash to print the current time, or the time the current > shell was invoked.
I wonder if a better way to handle this is to require the %s expansion at configure time and use the strftime replacement in lib/sh if the C library's strftime doesn't implement it. What systems, if you know, do not handle %s? Chet -- ``The lyf so short, the craft so long to lerne.'' - Chaucer ``Ars longa, vita brevis'' - Hippocrates Chet Ramey, ITS, CWRU c...@case.edu http://cnswww.cns.cwru.edu/~chet/