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From: help-debbugs <at> gnu.org (GNU bug Tracking System)
To: Dimitri Tassiaux <d.tassiaux <at> gmail.com>
Subject: bug#8930: closed (Re: date +%C)
Date: Fri, 24 Jun 2011 19:53:02 +0000

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Your bug report

#8930: date +%C

which was filed against the coreutils package, has been closed.

The explanation is attached below, along with your original report.
If you require more details, please reply to 8930 <at> debbugs.gnu.org.

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From: Eric Blake <eblake <at> redhat.com>
To: Dimitri Tassiaux <d.tassiaux <at> gmail.com>, 8930-done <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: date +%C
Date: Fri, 24 Jun 2011 13:52:02 -0600

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tag 8930 notabug
thanks

> ~$ *date*
> vendredi 24 juin 2011, 20:32:50 (UTC+0200)
> ~$ *date +%C*
> 20
> 
> 
> *# 21st Century !*
> 

Thanks for the report.  However, this is not a bug.

%C does not mean the century in common parlance, rather, according to
POSIX, it means:

http://pubs.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799/utilities/date.html

> 
> %C
>     Century (a year divided by 100 and truncated to an integer) as a decimal number [00,99].

Yes, the mnemonic is using century for lack of a better term, but it is
correctly printing all but the last two digits of the year.

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From: Dimitri Tassiaux <d.tassiaux <at> gmail.com>
To: bug-coreutils <at> gnu.org
Subject: date +%C
Date: Fri, 24 Jun 2011 20:39:41 +0200

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~$ *date*
vendredi 24 juin 2011, 20:32:50 (UTC+0200)
~$ *date +%C*
20


*# 21st Century !*



Dimitri Tassiaux


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