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

[Alexandre Oliva]

On Mar 13, 2002, dewar@gnat.com (Robert Dewar) wrote:

> How can a user *not* know that %y generates only the low two order digits
> of the year, I just don't see any scenario under which that is true, since
> the output is obvious. That's even *more* clear when someone writes 19%y,
> in this case it is 100% clear that the user knows what it does, and it is
> a bit amazing to me that you would claim otherwise.

Just consider for a moment that, after seeing the 19%y example in the
docs, the user might think that the sequence 19%y is handled
especially, and will actually print the full year.  It's amazing how
people's imaginations sometimes fly :-)

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