On 11/11/2010 07:26 AM, Pádraig Brady wrote: >>>> %.*X => precision determined by fstimeprec >>>> > > An alternative perhaps that doesn't require the above override > behavior and is also forwards compat, is to use %.0X rather than %.*X That sounds nicer to me. I look at %.*X and think I have to supply the precision, but %.0X as a mnemonic of 'show full precision but suppress trailing zeros' kind of makes sense, and looks nicer than %#.X. -- Eric Blake eblake@redhat.com +1-801-349-2682 Libvirt virtualization library http://libvirt.org