Document problems with other strptime implementations.

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Ulrich Drepper 2001-11-26 21:45:33 +00:00
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@ -1762,7 +1762,14 @@ A literal @samp{%} character.
All other characters in the format string must have a matching character
in the input string. Exceptions are white spaces in the input string
which can match zero or more white space characters in the format string.
which can match zero or more whitespace characters in the format string.
@strong{Portability Note:} The XPG standard advises applications to use
at least one whitespace character (as specified by @code{isspace}) or
other non-alphanumeric characters between any two conversion
specifications. The @w{GNU C Library} does not have this limitation but
other libraries might have trouble parsing formats like
@code{"%d%m%Y%H%M%S"}.
The @code{strptime} function processes the input string from right to
left. Each of the three possible input elements (white space, literal,