Re: Use of strftime in movemail.ec

[Paul Eggert]

Eli Zaretskii wrote:
> I believe these format specifiers were used under the assumption that
> Gnulib's strftime will be used on systems that don't support the full
> functionality.

No, I merely assumed C99, which specifies the %e and %T format specifiers for 
strftime. I didn't know Microsoft lacks support for this. I didn't think Gnulib 
would be needed.

Using %d instead of %e changes the output format of movemail slightly, by using 
leading 0 rather than leading space for day of month. It's more conservative to 
stick with the same format, so I installed a further patch to try to do that. I 
can't easily test this further patch on Windows, but it clearly restores the old 
behavior elsewhere because now all the changes are inside "#ifdef WINDOWSNT".

Using Gnulib would be another possibility, but would be more intrusive for other 
reasons (we'd have to supply replacement implementations of emacs_getenv_TZ and 
emacs_setenv_TZ on all platforms), and I'd rather not do that so close to a release.