Re: PATCH: strftime builtin

[Peter Stephenson <pws@csr.com>]

Clint Adams wrote:
> > The strftime formats are probably pretty useless without a strftime
> > builtin.
> 
> This probably doesn't belong in the zsh/langinfo module.
> Should it get its own module?
> 
> interim documentation: strftime format secs_since_epoch

You should probably use zsh's own function ztrftime (in utils.c), which
calls strftime if that's available, else does some of the simpler formats,
and makes a couple of extra formats available.  If that doesn't seem
appropriate for some reason, at least test for HAVE_STRFTIME which is
already handled by configure.

I suppose it would be better in its own module, or else a module
timeutils or stringutils if there's any more stuff that can usefully be
collected.

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Peter Stephenson <pws@csr.com>                  Software Engineer
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