From guy@netapp.com Thu Aug 22 19:45:31 1996

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If you are going to follow the standards, then strftime() should replace %x with the "locale's appropriate date representation". That means that the date representation should vary based on the locale that the caller is running under. The default locale is the C locale.

I am at home and I do not keep the standards here, so I cannot look up what that should be, but I can do it later tonight or tomorrow.

My copy of ANSI X3.159-1989 doesn't appear to specify the C locale's "appropriate date representation". My copy of IEEE 1003.1b-1993 doesn't appear to specify it either.

There must be something wrong with my real job that I am spending so much time on this :-) I found the XPG4 definition of the C/POSIX locale (for those reading along, I am in the XPG4 System Interfaces Definitions Issue 4, Version 2). The LC_TIME locale category is discussed starting at Section 5.3.5, p. 69. The C/POSIX locale value for d_fmt (the thing associated with %x) is "%m/%d/%y". This can be found on p. 75. Normally, XPG4 is not very creative here, so I doubt they made this up, but I cannot find where they could have taken it from. I will ask the big league standards guys around here tomorrow. alan