Christian Weisgerber <naddy@mips.inka.de> wrote:
> Lucas Gabriel Vuotto just pointed out that got(1) was mistakenly
> using %G to get the year with strftime().  This is a trap set by a
> poor description in our strftime.3.  I suggest the clarification
> below, taken from FreeBSD.
> 
> OK?  Or would somebody like to suggest a better phrasing?

Looking at the wikipedia article about this phenomenon I’d suggest you
just replace "ISO 8601 year" with "ISO week-numbering year". Presumably everyone
whose job it is to know what the ISO week-numbering system is will know
what it means. I'd suggest that ISO 8601 more broadly is familiar to
people as being the standard defining the "%Y-%m-%dT%H:%M:%S%z" format.

Note that the details of the ISO week-numbering year are explained with
different wording under the documentation of %V.

Evan S.