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From: gwyn@smoke.BRL.MIL (Doug Gwyn)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
Subject: Re: SCCS/cftime clash
Keywords: %d%m%y%H%M%S SCCS cftime
Message-ID: <13120@smoke.BRL.MIL>
Date: 14 Jun 90 19:37:25 GMT
References: <1056@nixsin.UUCP>
Organization: U.S. Army Ballistic Research Laboratory, APG, MD.
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In article <1056@nixsin.UUCP> koerberm@nixsin.UUCP (Mathias Koerber) writes:
>I got a problem involving SCCS. In my program (stored as an SCCS-file)
>I use cftime(buf,"%d%m%y%H%M%S",&now) to generate a date/timestring

There is no really elegant solution to this.  One portable solution
is to use instead
	{
	static char format[] = "%d%m%y%H?M%S";
	format[8] = '%';	/* darn that SCCS */
	cftime(buf,format,&now);
	}