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strftime.3: Expand introductory text 

Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
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Michael Witten 2010-01-17 05:02:38 +01:00 committed by Michael Kerrisk
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@ -51,13 +51,18 @@ result in the character array \fIs\fP of size \fImax\fP.
.\" FIXME POSIX says: Local timezone information is used as though
.\" strftime() called tzset(). But this doesn't appear to be the case
.PP
Ordinary characters placed in the format string are copied to \fIs\fP
without conversion.
.I "Conversion specifications"
are introduced by a \(aq%\(aq
character, and terminated by a
.IR "conversion specifier character" ,
and are replaced in \fIs\fP as follows:
The format specification is a null-terminated string and may contain
special character sequences called
.IR "conversion specifications",
each of which is introduced by a \(aq%\(aq character and terminated by
some other character known as a
.IR "conversion specifier character".
All other character sequences are
.IR "ordinary character sequences".
.PP
The characters of ordinary character sequences (including the null byte)
are copied verbatim from \fIformat\fP to \fIs\fP. However, the characters
of conversion specifications are replaced as follows:
.TP
.B %a
The abbreviated weekday name according to the current locale.