On Sun, Jan 22, 2017 at 02:53:15AM -0600, Ricky Cintron wrote:
> Hello all,
> 
> Apologies if I???m mistaken, but it appears that the Lua packages are built 
> with the default conversion specifiers for strftime, which are defined in 
> loslib.c (if I searched correctly). Unfortunately these do not include %l, 
> %k, %s, %v an %+, which are supported by OpenBSD???s strftime. This leads to 
> an error when trying to use %l to format Awesome Window Manager???s panel 
> clock.
> 
> Would it be possible to begin building the Lua packages with support for 
> these conversion specifiers, or has this option already been considered and 
> not implemented for a reason?
> 
> Thanks.

lang/lua/5.1 and lang/luajit don't have a whitelist for format options,
lang/lua/5.2 and lang/lua/5.3 do.  It isn't clear if the intent is for
LUA_STRFTIMEOPTIONS to be changed to include all of the valid options or
if it is limited to prevent portability problems.

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