GNU bug report logs - #34608
date +%+4C is unimplemented, contrary to POSIX

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Package: coreutils;

Reported by: Eric Blake <eblake <at> redhat.com>

Date: Thu, 21 Feb 2019 17:11:02 UTC

Severity: normal

Done: Paul Eggert <eggert <at> cs.ucla.edu>

Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.

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From: Paul Eggert <eggert <at> cs.ucla.edu>
To: Eric Blake <eblake <at> redhat.com>
Cc: 34608 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#34608: date +%+4C is unimplemented, contrary to POSIX
Date: Thu, 21 Feb 2019 19:37:46 -0800

Eric Blake wrote:

> date -d 0001-01-01 +.%+4C.
> 
> should produce ".+000.", but currently it produces ".%+4C." because the
> + flag is unimplemented.
> 
> See also http://austingroupbugs.net/view.php?id=1184

Surely this bug should be reported against strftime, not against 'date'. POSIX 
does require that strftime behave that way, but it does not place a similar 
requirement on 'date'.
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