warning: `%y' yields only last 2 digits of year

[David O'Brien]

On Tue, Mar 12, 2002 at 01:05:26PM -0800, Geoff Keating wrote:
> > Please note that warning
> > 
> > "warning: `%y' yields only last 2 digits of year"
> > 
> > is absolutely stupid and according to my opinion should be
> > immediately removed.  It is clearly stated in manpage that %y yields
> > only 0-99. It is not necessary to attach random pieces of manpages
> > into gcc's output, no matter how the manpages are relevant to the
> > code being compiled.
> 
> You can use -Wno-format-y2k to disable this warning.  I hope the name
> of the option will help to explain why the warning exists.

I agree, this warning has caused too many false positives.  And with more
and more code I am involved with turning on -Werror, this is a problem.
This particular warning is a "low quality" one.  And the 1999->2000 point
is over 2 years behind us now.  Lets turn this around, why shouldn't one
have to -Wformat-y2k to get these warnings??
 
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-- David  (obrien@FreeBSD.org)