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authorMichael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>2007-12-23 13:02:05 +0000
committerMichael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>2007-12-23 13:02:05 +0000
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@@ -242,7 +242,7 @@ The year as a decimal number including the century.
.B %z
The time-zone as hour offset from GMT.
Required to emit RFC\ 822-conformant dates
-(using "%a, %d %b %Y %H:%M:%S %z"). (GNU)
+(using "%a,\ %d\ %b\ %Y\ %H:%M:%S\ %z"). (GNU)
.TP
.B %Z
The time zone or name or abbreviation.
@@ -265,9 +265,27 @@ to indicate that an alternative format should be used.
If the alternative format or specification does not exist for
the current locale, the behavior will be as if the unmodified
conversion specification were used. (SU)
-The Single Unix Specification mentions %Ec, %EC, %Ex, %EX,
-%Ey, %EY, %Od, %Oe, %OH, %OI, %Om, %OM, %OS, %Ou, %OU, %OV,
-%Ow, %OW, %Oy, where the effect of the O modifier is to use
+The Single Unix Specification mentions
+.BR %Ec ,
+.BR %EC ,
+.BR %Ex ,
+.BR %EX ,
+.BR %Ey ,
+.BR %EY ,
+.BR %Od ,
+.BR %Oe ,
+.BR %OH ,
+.BR %OI ,
+.BR %Om ,
+.BR %OM ,
+.BR %OS ,
+.BR %Ou ,
+.BR %OU ,
+.BR %OV ,
+.BR %Ow ,
+.BR %OW ,
+.BR %Oy ,
+where the effect of the O modifier is to use
alternative numeric symbols (say, roman numerals), and that of the
E modifier is to use a locale-dependent alternative representation.
.PP
@@ -325,7 +343,7 @@ Glibc provides some extensions for conversion specifications.
(These extensions are not specified in POSIX.1-2001, but a few other
systems provide similar features.)
.\" HP-UX and Tru64 also have features like this.
-Between the % character and the conversion specifier character,
+Between the '%' character and the conversion specifier character,
an optional
.I flag
and field