From: Todd C. Miller <millert@openbsd.org>
Subject: Re: strftime.3: clarify %G and %g description
To: Christian Weisgerber <naddy@mips.inka.de>
Cc: tech@openbsd.org, Ingo Schwarze <schwarze@openbsd.org>, Lucas Gabriel Vuotto <lucas@sexy.is>
Date: Tue, 23 Apr 2024 19:55:03 -0600

On Tue, 23 Apr 2024 21:43:44 +0200, Christian Weisgerber 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.

I still find that confusing.  I think "majority" would be better
than "greater part" but it still lacks a real description for the
option.  I don't think it is reasonable to expect people to understand
the finer points of ISO 8601.

Upstream tzcode also refers to the %V option which has a description
of ISO 8601 week numbers.  Perhaps we should just update our
manual based on that.

 - todd