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Chars out of order in date.c string

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From: help-debbugs <at> gnu.org (GNU bug Tracking System)
To: Anders Jonsson <anders.jonsson <at> norsjovallen.se>
Subject: bug#41480: closed (Re: bug#41480: Chars out of order in date.c
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Date: Sat, 23 May 2020 15:58:02 +0000

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#41480: Chars out of order in date.c string

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From: Paul Eggert <eggert <at> cs.ucla.edu>
To: Anders Jonsson <anders.jonsson <at> norsjovallen.se>, 41480-done <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Cc: Göran Uddeborg <goeran <at> uddeborg.se>
Subject: Re: bug#41480: Chars out of order in date.c string
Date: Sat, 23 May 2020 08:57:23 -0700

On 5/23/20 4:41 AM, Anders Jonsson wrote:

> I noticed one thing when having a look at the Swedish translation of coreutils.
> 
>>#: src/date.c:196
>>msgid ""
>>"  %F   full date; like %+4Y-%m-%d\n"

There must be some confusion here, because this translation is for coreutils
8.31 and later.

> This doesn't give the expected result when I try it in coreutils 8.30 in Debian
> testing:

That's because the behavior of coreutils changed in 8.31. The translation string
you're talking about was introduced in coreutils 8.31, so I'm puzzled as to why
it'd be used with coreutils 8.30.

Here's the behavior change in 8.31:

https://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/gnulib.git/commit/?id=188d87b05190690d6f8b0577ec65ef221a711d08

and here's the closely-related documentation change in 8.31:

https://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/coreutils.git/commit/?id=2ab2f7a422652a9ec887e08ca8935b44e9629505

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From: Anders Jonsson <anders.jonsson <at> norsjovallen.se>
To: bug-coreutils <at> gnu.org
Cc: Göran Uddeborg <goeran <at> uddeborg.se>
Subject: Chars out of order in date.c string
Date: Sat, 23 May 2020 13:41:08 +0200

Hi,
I noticed one thing when having a look at the Swedish translation of 
coreutils.

>#: src/date.c:196
>msgid ""
>"  %F   full date; like %+4Y-%m-%d\n"


This doesn't give the expected result when I try it in coreutils 8.30 in 
Debian testing:

>date +%F
2020-05-23
>date +%+4Y-%m-%d
%+4Y-05-23


If the "%" and the "+" change places in the string above we get the 
expected result:

>date +%4Y-%m-%d
2020-05-23


My suggestion would thus be to change the character order so the string 
becomes "  %F   full date; like +%4Y-%m-%d\n"


Regards,
Anders Jonsson

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