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diff --git a/ChangeLog b/ChangeLog index 182aa13353..09c3d8f22e 100644 --- a/ChangeLog +++ b/ChangeLog @@ -1,3 +1,8 @@ +2019-08-22 Joseph Myers <joseph@codesourcery.com> + + * manual/time.texi (strftime): Document %Ob and %OB as C2X + features. + 2019-08-21 Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu> Remove dead regex code diff --git a/manual/time.texi b/manual/time.texi index bfa46dd45b..c5f5b94b67 100644 --- a/manual/time.texi +++ b/manual/time.texi @@ -1352,7 +1352,11 @@ alternative numeric symbols. With @code{%B}, @code{%b}, and @code{%h}: use the grammatical form for month names that is appropriate when the month is named by itself, rather than the form that is appropriate when the month is used as -part of a complete date. This is a GNU extension. +part of a complete date. The @code{%OB} and @code{%Ob} formats are a +C2X feature, specified in C2X to use the locale's `alternative' month +name; @theglibc{} extends this specification to say that the form used +in a complete date is the default and the form naming the month by +itself is the alternative. @end table If the format supports the modifier but no alternative representation @@ -1372,14 +1376,16 @@ The full weekday name according to the current locale. @item %b The abbreviated month name according to the current locale, in the grammatical form used when the month is part of a complete date. -As a GNU extension, the @code{O} modifier can be used (@code{%Ob}) -to get the grammatical form used when the month is named by itself. +As a C2X feature (with a more detailed specification in @theglibc{}), +the @code{O} modifier can be used (@code{%Ob}) to get the grammatical +form used when the month is named by itself. @item %B The full month name according to the current locale, in the grammatical form used when the month is part of a complete date. -As a GNU extension, the @code{O} modifier can be used (@code{%OB}) -to get the grammatical form used when the month is named by itself. +As a C2X feature (with a more detailed specification in @theglibc{}), +the @code{O} modifier can be used (@code{%OB}) to get the grammatical +form used when the month is named by itself. Note that not all languages need two different forms of the month names, so the text produced by @code{%B} and @code{%OB}, and by |