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author | Todd C. Miller <millert@cvs.openbsd.org> | 1999-01-04 20:00:11 +0000 |
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committer | Todd C. Miller <millert@cvs.openbsd.org> | 1999-01-04 20:00:11 +0000 |
commit | dafd3595fd26ad456a99855a24a8b16e45e59c81 (patch) | |
tree | 8111ae9e60c0c5e6d8a3606f085ffb16a3df85d8 /lib/libc | |
parent | 2903d0da64d2207d8087290543d406f79906f260 (diff) |
include blurb about ISO 8601 dates straight from strftime.c
Diffstat (limited to 'lib/libc')
-rw-r--r-- | lib/libc/time/strftime.3 | 13 |
1 files changed, 12 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/lib/libc/time/strftime.3 b/lib/libc/time/strftime.3 index 136504239a6..56efdc9016f 100644 --- a/lib/libc/time/strftime.3 +++ b/lib/libc/time/strftime.3 @@ -34,7 +34,7 @@ .\" SUCH DAMAGE. .\" .\" from: @(#)strftime.3 5.12 (Berkeley) 6/29/91 -.\" $OpenBSD: strftime.3,v 1.5 1998/07/06 18:57:12 millert Exp $ +.\" $OpenBSD: strftime.3,v 1.6 1999/01/04 20:00:10 millert Exp $ .\" .Dd Jan 18, 1998 .Dt STRFTIME 3 @@ -202,6 +202,17 @@ The and .Ql \&%l conversion specifications are extensions. +.Pp +Use of the ISO 8601 conversions may produce non-intuitive results. +Week 01 of a year is per definition the first week which has the +Thursday in this year, which is equivalent to the week which contains +the fourth day of January. In other words, the first week of a new +year is the week which has the majority of its days in the new year. +Week 01 might also contain days from the previous year and the week +before week 01 of a year is the last week (52 or 53) of the previous +year even if it contains days from the new year. A week starts with +Monday (day 1) and ends with Sunday (day 7). For example, the first +week of the year 1997 lasts from 1996-12-30 to 1997-01-05. .Sh BUGS There is no conversion specification for the phase of the moon. .Pp |