Georg Brandl <ge...@python.org> added the comment: You cannot have both: a safe implementation and the correct behavior with glibc (not Linux!) -- except if you start special-casing. Not sure that's worth it.
Note that time.asctime() is documented in time.rst to return a 24-character string, so what it currently returns with glibc is violating our docs as well. ---------- _______________________________________ Python tracker <rep...@bugs.python.org> <http://bugs.python.org/issue8013> _______________________________________ _______________________________________________ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com