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(strftime): Explain better Windows incompatibility. Suggested by Micah Cowan <micah@cowan.name>.
author Simon Josefsson <simon@josefsson.org>
date Mon, 21 Apr 2008 11:03:51 +0200
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@node strftime
@section @code{strftime}
@findex strftime

POSIX specification: @url{http://www.opengroup.org/susv3xsh/strftime.html}

Gnulib module: ---

Portability problems fixed by Gnulib:
@itemize
@end itemize

Portability problems not fixed by Gnulib:
@itemize
@item
The Windows C runtime library (which is used by MinGW) does not
support the %e specifier (and possibly the other more recent SUS
specifiers too, i.e., %C, %D, %h, %n, %r, %R, %t, and %T).
@end itemize

Extension: Gnulib offers a module @samp{strftime} that provides an
@code{strftime} function with various GNU extensions.