Signed-off-by: Michael Witten <mfwitten@xxxxxxxxx> --- man3/strftime.3 | 19 ++++++++++++------- 1 files changed, 12 insertions(+), 7 deletions(-) diff --git a/man3/strftime.3 b/man3/strftime.3 index e8400f0..c42607a 100644 --- a/man3/strftime.3 +++ b/man3/strftime.3 @@ -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. -- 1.6.5.2.180.gc5b3e -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-man" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
