[Python-checkins] bpo-9811: [doc] strftime handling of unsupported format specifiers is platform dependent (GH-28264)

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Fri Sep 10 12:27:05 EDT 2021


https://github.com/python/cpython/commit/e86bcfa58080f152f242c756f625f4015671f168
commit: e86bcfa58080f152f242c756f625f4015671f168
branch: main
author: Irit Katriel <1055913+iritkatriel at users.noreply.github.com>
committer: ambv <lukasz at langa.pl>
date: 2021-09-10T18:26:57+02:00
summary:

bpo-9811: [doc] strftime handling of unsupported format specifiers is platform dependent (GH-28264)

files:
M Doc/library/datetime.rst

diff --git a/Doc/library/datetime.rst b/Doc/library/datetime.rst
index dae0dd7aa5589..196aa84473f13 100644
--- a/Doc/library/datetime.rst
+++ b/Doc/library/datetime.rst
@@ -2431,7 +2431,8 @@ incomplete or ambiguous ISO 8601 directives will raise a :exc:`ValueError`.
 The full set of format codes supported varies across platforms, because Python
 calls the platform C library's :func:`strftime` function, and platform
 variations are common. To see the full set of format codes supported on your
-platform, consult the :manpage:`strftime(3)` documentation.
+platform, consult the :manpage:`strftime(3)` documentation. There are also
+differences between platforms in handling of unsupported format specifiers.
 
 .. versionadded:: 3.6
    ``%G``, ``%u`` and ``%V`` were added.



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