Issue 4923: time.strftime documentation needs update (original) (raw)

Created on 2009-01-12 11:31 by riquito, last changed 2022-04-11 14:56 by admin. This issue is now closed.

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msg79667 - (view)	Author: Riccardo Attilio Galli (riquito)	Date: 2009-01-12 11:31
there are discrepancies in the online documentation of strftime in time.strftime http://docs.python.org/library/time.html and datetime.strftime (http://docs.python.org/library/datetime.html) In particular, seems like datetime.strftime is the one up to date, having format codes %f and %z documented, and possibly others
msg80105 - (view)	Author: Georg Brandl (georg.brandl) *	Date: 2009-01-18 14:42
%f and %z are not standardized by C89 and therefore not always available. They fall under the clause "Additional directives may be supported on certain platforms, but only the ones listed here have a meaning standardized by ANSI C." which is noted for time.strftime(). datetime.strftime() implements %z (and %f from 2.6) separately, therefore it is available there. I've added a bit of clarification in r68726.