Re: bug in date command

[Andreas Schwab]

Bauke Jan Douma <address@hidden> writes:

> On Fri, May 14, 2004 at 11:27:53AM +0200, Andreas Schwab wrote:
>> Bauke Jan Douma <address@hidden> writes:
>> 
>> > On Fri, May 14, 2004 at 12:51:20AM +0200, Andreas Schwab wrote:
>> >> "duncan brown" <address@hidden> writes:
>> >> 
>> >> > date +%C reports the 20th century, but we've been in the 21st since jan 
>> >> > 01, 00:00:00
>> >> 
>> >>   %C   century (year divided by 100 and truncated to an integer) [00-99]
>> >
>> > Surely this must be a Y2K-ism in the standard, no?
>> 
>> Why?
>> 
>> $ date +%C%y
>> 2004
>
> I am sorry, I answered under the assumption that you wrote
> 'truncated to the closest integer'.
>
> Still, there is discrepancy in one common meaning of the word
> 'century' and the meaning it has here, as the original
> poster noted.  Here it apparently means something like 'the
> century part of the full year-number.'

The text is nearly identical to the one in the POSIX standard.

Andreas.

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