6 Apr
2015
6 Apr
'15
8:58 p.m.
On Sun, Apr 5, 2015, at 00:00, Steven D'Aprano wrote:
As I understand it, the list of codes accepted is platform-dependent. While many codes are standard from machine to machine, some are not available on some systems.
In my opinion all codes accepted by C11 *should* be supported by python; its present failure to do so is a wart. Any new work to address this issue should be in the form of a pure python strftime function rather than an effort to document every platform's idiosyncracies. In particular, none of the specifiers in the standard _except_ %z or %Z require any platform-specific logic. And these could be addressed by likewise supporting tm_zone and tm_gmtoff on platforms that do not provide them.