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[PATCH] tests/misc/date.pl: uppercase/lowercase test

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From: Jakub Martisko <jamartis <at> redhat.com>
To: bug-coreutils <at> gnu.org
Subject: [PATCH] tests/misc/date.pl: uppercase/lowercase test
Date: Tue, 26 Apr 2016 09:36:18 +0200

[Message part 1 (text/plain, inline)]

Added some basic test for date lowercase/uppercase output. Depends on 
https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-gnulib/2016-04/msg00015.html

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From e02e9de17cfa5999a3ef83f6a10c754bb425b274 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Jakub Martisko <jamartis <at> unused-4-107.brq.redhat.com>
Date: Tue, 12 Apr 2016 14:54:42 +0200
Subject: [PATCH] test: Add lowercase/uppercase flag tests for date

*tests/misc/date.pl: Added tests for lowercase output and
uppercase output. depends on:
https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-gnulib/2016-04/msg00015.html
---
 tests/misc/date.pl | 2 ++
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+)

diff --git a/tests/misc/date.pl b/tests/misc/date.pl
index 3454dcc..faf16a1 100755
--- a/tests/misc/date.pl
+++ b/tests/misc/date.pl
@@ -47,6 +47,8 @@ my @Tests =
      # test-name, [option, option, ...] {OUT=>"expected-output"}
      #
      ['1', "-d '$d1' +'%% %a %A %b %B'", {OUT=>"% Sun Sunday Jan January"}],
+     ['1U', "-d '$d1' +'%% %\#a %\#A %\#b %\#B'", {OUT=>"% SUN SUNDAY JAN JANUARY"}],
+     ['1L', "-d '$d1' +'%% %\#^a %\#^A %\#^b %\#^B'", {OUT=>"% sun sunday jan january"}],
 
      # [Actually, skip it on *all* systems. -- this Perl code is run at
      # distribution-build-time, not at configure/test time.  ]
-- 
2.5.0

Message #8 received at 23379 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Pádraig Brady <P <at> draigBrady.com>
To: Jakub Martisko <jamartis <at> redhat.com>, 23379 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#23379: [PATCH] tests/misc/date.pl: uppercase/lowercase test
Date: Tue, 26 Apr 2016 17:04:11 +0100

On 26/04/16 08:36, Jakub Martisko wrote:
> Added some basic test for date lowercase/uppercase output. Depends on
> https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-gnulib/2016-04/msg00015.html

Thanks I responded on that thread.
Re the patch here, we'd need doc updates for date.c and coreutils.texi
But all this would be gated on acceptance for glibc's strtime implementation,
as it would be best to avoid divergence on its interface.

thanks,
Pádraig

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