[issue13305] datetime.strftime("%Y") not consistent for years < 1000

[Florent Xicluna]

Florent Xicluna <florent.xicluna at gmail.com> added the comment:

There's many discrepancies between OS X and Linux about time formatting...

OS X
>>> from datetime import datetime
>>> datetime(1900, 1, 1).strftime("%6Y")
'6Y'

Linux
>>> from datetime import datetime
>>> datetime(1900, 1, 1).strftime("%6Y")
'001900'

BTW, these discrepancies are already mentioned:
http://docs.python.org/dev/library/datetime.html#strftime-strptime-behavior

“The full set of format codes supported varies across platforms, because Python calls the platform C library’s strftime() function, and platform variations are common.”

We should had an asterisk to the "%Y" saying that the padding is not consistent across platforms.

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