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diff --git a/manual/time.texi b/manual/time.texi index b8a95b2f60..26c3c5928a 100644 --- a/manual/time.texi +++ b/manual/time.texi @@ -638,14 +638,24 @@ The number is padded with spaces. @item - The number is not padded at all. + +@item 0 +The number is padded with zeros even if the format spefies padding +with spaces. @end table The default action is to pad the number with zeros to keep it a constant width. Numbers that do not have a range indicated below are never padded, since there is no natural width for them. -An optional modifier can follow the optional flag. The modifiers, which -are POSIX.2 extensions, are: +Following the flag an optional specification of the width is possible. +This is specified in decimal notation. If the natural size of the +output is of the field has less than the specifed number of character, +the result is written right adjusted and space padded to the given +size. + +An optional modifier can follow the optional flag and width +specification. The modifiers, which are POSIX.2 extensions, are: @table @code @item E @@ -660,7 +670,8 @@ Use the locale's alternate numeric symbols for numbers. This modifier applies only to numeric format specifiers. @end table -A modifier is ignored if no alternate representation is available. +If the format supports the modifier but no alternate representation +is available, it is ignored. The conversion specifier ends with a format specifier taken from the following list. The whole @samp{%} sequence is replaced in the output @@ -868,6 +879,10 @@ repeat the call, providing a bigger array. If @var{s} is a null pointer, @code{strftime} does not actually write anything, but instead returns the number of characters it would have written. +According to POSIX.1 every call to @code{strftime} implies a call to +@code{tzset}. So the contents of the environment variable @code{TZ} +is examined before any output is produced. + For an example of @code{strftime}, see @ref{Time Functions Example}. @end deftypefun |