Re: [PATCH][BZ #15527] strftime_l.c: Support lowercase output

[Mike Frysinger <vapier at gentoo dot org>]

On 29 Jun 2016 09:55, Jakub Martisko wrote:
> thanks for your comment. The reason why I sent the patch is that there 
> is a bug/feature request for similar functionality in coreutils' "date" 
> program and the maintainers of coreutils/gnulib do not want to diverge 
> from the glibc interface. Even though the replacing you mentioned does 
> indeed work, built-in version would be imo better (for example when 
> using other shell than bash), especially when all of the needed 
> functionality was already implemented.

i think his point is that bash has already defined a syntax, but you
are doing it differently and there's (afaict) no need for it.  he isn't
saying you should use bash if you want lower/upper case.

so instead of adding new syntax like "%#^x", add "%,x"
-mike

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