strftime Windows/Solaris compatibility question

rovf has asked for the wisdom of the Perl Monks concerning the following question:

use warnings;
use POSIX qw(strftime);
print strftime("%d %e",localtime(time));
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The above code prints 10 10 when run on Solaris, but 10 when run on Windows (ActiveState Perl). %e is not recognized on Windows. Any idea why?

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Ronald Fischer <ynnor@mm.st>

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Re: strftime Windows/Solaris compatibility question by andreas1234567 (Vicar) on Sep 10, 2008 at 13:57 UTC
POSIX strftime: strftime: If you want your code to be portable, your format ("fmt") argument should use only the conversion specifiers defined by the ANSI C standard (C89, to play safe). These are `aAbBcdHIjmMpSUwWxXyYZ%`. But even then, the results of some of the conversion specifiers are non-portable. -- No matter how great and destructive your problems may seem now, remember, you've probably only seen the tip of them. [1]	[reply] [d/l]
Re^2: strftime Windows/Solaris compatibility question by rovf (Priest) on Sep 11, 2008 at 08:36 UTC
Thanks a lot! So I will stick to the %d. -- Ronald Fischer <ynnor@mm.st>	[reply]
Re: strftime Windows/Solaris compatibility question by derby (Abbot) on Sep 10, 2008 at 13:45 UTC
Because it's not supported by the vendor's implementation of strftime. -derby	[reply]
Re: strftime Windows/Solaris compatibility question by broomduster (Priest) on Sep 10, 2008 at 13:48 UTC
There are some clues scattered through strftime reference for Win32. Apparently, `%e` is not supported on Windows. Google also turns up some pointers into PHP-related discussions that bear this out, e.g., http://aspn.activestate.com/ASPN/Mail/Message/php-Dev/3656815	[reply] [d/l]
Re: strftime Windows/Solaris compatibility question by syphilis (Archbishop) on Sep 10, 2008 at 13:55 UTC
but 10 when run on Windows (ActiveState Perl) Prints `%d %e` for me on Windows (Vista) with both builds 824 (5.8.8) and 1004 (5.10.0) of ActivePerl. Cheers, Rob	[reply] [d/l]
Re^2: strftime Windows/Solaris compatibility question by dHarry (Abbot) on Sep 10, 2008 at 14:03 UTC
Huh? Must be a Vista thing then because it doesn't for me on XP. This good be the one (and only?) reason to prefer Vista to XP:-) Cheers dHarry	[reply]
Re^3: strftime Windows/Solaris compatibility question by Anonymous Monk on Sep 11, 2008 at 08:00 UTC
Newer C-runtime ( MSVCR*.dll)	[reply]
Re: strftime Windows/Solaris compatibility question by dHarry (Abbot) on Sep 10, 2008 at 13:58 UTC
See POSIX. The "If you want your code to be portable... " part in the strftime section.	[reply]