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[Richard Laager]

On Sun, 2008-08-10 at 22:33 -0700, Mark Doliner wrote:
> Friedel, I image there is a reason that we're using "%x %X" instead of
> "%c" (which is "the preferred date and time representation for the
> current locale"), but I don't know what it is.

I really want to know who prefers the output of %c... K&R, perhaps?

$ date "+%x %X"
08/11/2008 01:55:29 AM

$ date "+%c"
Mon 11 Aug 2008 01:55:31 AM CDT

I'd really love to see %c do smart relative dates, but that'll never
happen.

Richard
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