On Monday, 08 February 1999, at 00:27:45 (+0000),
Vikas Agnihotri wrote:
> Nope. You misunderstand, Michael. Scott is asking about the
> unparenthesized '%d' in index_format. As David already answered, the
> the reason is probably historical, since %d is completely equivalent to
> %{.....} where "...' are the strftime() components that produce a
> regular 'date' string in Unix.
Yeah, I realized that after reading David's reply, but since I mailed
that post out yesterday, there wasn't much I could do.... =)
Michael
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