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Re: [PATCH] strftime: support %q to output the quarter of year
- From: Pádraig Brady <P at draigBrady dot com>
- To: Szabolcs Nagy <szabolcs dot nagy at arm dot com>, libc-alpha at sourceware dot org
- Cc: nd at arm dot com
- Date: Fri, 4 Nov 2016 12:00:29 +0000
- Subject: Re: [PATCH] strftime: support %q to output the quarter of year
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On 04/11/16 11:41, Szabolcs Nagy wrote:
> On 03/11/16 19:46, Pádraig Brady wrote:
>> This is already supported by gnulib.
> why?
It's a marginal benefit, but as
noted in the cover of my updated patch:
"Note even though the code is trivial here,
%q is useful from the shell as there you need to:
$(( ($(date +%-m)-1)/3+1 ))".
I'll add that to the actual commit.