Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!aplcen!haven!adm!smoke!gwyn
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: <13131@smoke.BRL.MIL>
Date: 15 Jun 90 19:07:31 GMT
References: <1056@nixsin.UUCP> <13120@smoke.BRL.MIL> <1990Jun14.211132.20855@iwarp.intel.com>
Organization: U.S. Army Ballistic Research Laboratory, APG, MD.
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In article <1990Jun14.211132.20855@iwarp.intel.com> merlyn@iwarp.intel.com (Randal Schwartz) writes:
-In article <13120@smoke.BRL.MIL>, gwyn@smoke (Doug Gwyn) writes:
-| 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);
-| 	}
-	static char format[] = "\045d\045m\045y\045H\045M\045S";

Note that I said *portable* solution.