Message 146750 - Python tracker

Message146750

Author	flox
Recipients	belopolsky, ezio.melotti, flox, vstinner
Date	2011-10-31.22:59:35
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Message-id	<1320101975.87.0.905530497538.issue13305@psf.upfronthosting.co.za>
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There's many discrepancies between OS X and Linux about time formatting... OS X >>> from datetime import datetime >>> datetime(1900, 1, 1).strftime("%6Y") '6Y' Linux >>> from datetime import datetime >>> datetime(1900, 1, 1).strftime("%6Y") '001900' BTW, these discrepancies are already mentioned: http://docs.python.org/dev/library/datetime.html#strftime-strptime-behavior “The full set of format codes supported varies across platforms, because Python calls the platform C library’s strftime() function, and platform variations are common.” We should had an asterisk to the "%Y" saying that the padding is not consistent across platforms.

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There's many discrepancies between OS X and Linux about time formatting...

OS X
>>> from datetime import datetime
>>> datetime(1900, 1, 1).strftime("%6Y")
'6Y'

Linux
>>> from datetime import datetime
>>> datetime(1900, 1, 1).strftime("%6Y")
'001900'

BTW, these discrepancies are already mentioned:
http://docs.python.org/dev/library/datetime.html#strftime-strptime-behavior

“The full set of format codes supported varies across platforms, because Python calls the platform C library’s strftime() function, and platform variations are common.”

We should had an asterisk to the "%Y" saying that the padding is not consistent across platforms.

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Date	User	Action	Args
2011-10-31 22:59:36	flox	set	recipients: + flox, belopolsky, vstinner, ezio.melotti
2011-10-31 22:59:35	flox	set	messageid: <1320101975.87.0.905530497538.issue13305@psf.upfronthosting.co.za>
2011-10-31 22:59:35	flox	link	issue13305 messages
2011-10-31 22:59:35	flox	create