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From: Joseph F. R. <rya...@os...> - 2001-12-02 00:59:53
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> > One other point: '%c' as a strftime date specifier is a > > little cryptic. I would tend to prefer '%H:%M:%S %d/%m/%Y'. > > Regardless of the broken way Americans deal with dates, > > this is a little more self-documenting and therefore > > would probably let people modify the format string > > without having to read the man page. > > > >In more recent versions of the code I am documenting the replacement >parameters - I guess that I hadn't got round to the countdown script yet >:) I had been working on countdown.pl before "Crunch time" (Finals week and the week before), and although this wasn't one of the issues I had fixed (hadn't thought of it! :P). I'll fix it later tonight, when I need a break from studying. Thanks for pointing it out. |