Humberto Diogenes added the comment:
David, as discussed on the IRC channel: maybe we could just add pointers to the
OS-specific docs. Something like:
"""
If you want to use platform-specific format strings, search for strftime in
your OS documentation (`man strftime` on POSIX systems).
Linu
R. David Murray added the comment:
As you say, "on some systems". The variation is documented, and the documented
codes are documented as being just those required by the C standard.
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New submission from Humberto Diogenes :
On some systems, datetime.strftime() accepts a %s format string that returns
epoch / UNIX timestamp, but this behavior is not documented at
http://docs.python.org/library/datetime.html
Python 2.7 (r27:82508, Jul 3 2010, 21:12:11)
[GCC 4.0.1 (Apple Inc.
