From: TJ Luoma <luomat@gmail.com>
To: zsh-users@zsh.org
Subject: Re: can strftime show 'p.m.' instead of 'PM'?
Date: Sat, 28 Apr 2012 17:45:46 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <2C541918E59F49F193E5EEBCE2C73CAF@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <alpine.LNX.2.01.1204281655300.27115@hp.internal>
On Saturday, April 28, 2012 at 5:10 PM, Benjamin R. Haskell wrote:
> AFAIK, the strftime provided by zsh/datetime just passes its format
> string to the C library function. (So, right now, %p and %P get me 'PM'
> and 'pm', respectively.)
Ah! That explains why it seems to work sometimes but not others. I must have seen it differently on my Linux account on my web host.
> Since it's system-dependent, you're probably better off munging it
> yourself. But if you're extremely worried about efficiency, you don't
> need to pipe to `tr` or `sed` (so you can avoid launching an external
> process):
>
> print -r - ${${${:-"$(strftime "%F %r" "$EPOCHSECONDS")"}/AM/a.m.}/PM/p.m.}
Terrific! Thanks.
I'm not so much worried about efficiency as I like to know what my alternatives are. I'm going to alias this anyway, so I might as well use the 'efficient' version.
(more below)
On Saturday, April 28, 2012 at 5:20 PM, Mark van Dijk wrote:
> One shall never debate the validity of taste. Unless it regards
> the dreadful modern popular music.
These kids these days with their rock & roll music! :-)
> But in my experience the
> exploration of zsh is all about, erm, "picayunicies".
If I ever create my own Linux distribution customized to my own preferences, I'm going to call it "picayunicies" :-)
TjL
ps - thanks!
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2012-04-28 21:46 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2012-04-28 18:55 TJ Luoma
2012-04-28 21:10 ` Benjamin R. Haskell
2012-04-28 21:45 ` TJ Luoma [this message]
2012-04-28 21:20 ` Mark van Dijk
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