c/3190 Re: warning: `%y' yields only last 2 digits of year

[Robert Dewar]

The following reply was made to PR c/3190; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: dewar@gnat.com (Robert Dewar)
To: dewar@gnat.com, jsm28@cam.ac.uk
Cc: clock@atrey.karlin.mff.cuni.cz, gcc-gnats@gcc.gnu.org,
	gcc@gcc.gnu.org, geoffk@geoffk.org
Subject: Re: c/3190 Re: warning: `%y' yields only last 2 digits of year
Date: Tue, 12 Mar 2002 17:36:04 -0500 (EST)

 But there are lots of forms which *require* the year to be output as two
 digits, and there is nothing wrong at all with doing so. To think otherwise
 is to have taken some totally bizarre viewpoint of what Y2K was all about.
 
 It's perfectly fine for example to say 01/05/02 on a check, and requiring
 2002 is a waste of ink. I don't see any *language* style issue and that
 is all that style warnings should be about. This is about *what* you
 are programming, whereas style options should be about *how* you are
 programming. 
 
 An anology would be if the compiler watched for the string "Mrs." in output
 and printed a warning saying "inappropriate term, consider using Ms instead".