Path: csiph.com!eternal-september.org!feeder.eternal-september.org!nntp.eternal-september.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Tim Rentsch Newsgroups: comp.lang.c Subject: Re: printf and time_t Date: Thu, 08 Jan 2026 09:54:34 -0800 Organization: A noiseless patient Spider Lines: 38 Message-ID: <864iowng6d.fsf@linuxsc.com> References: <10jfol6$2u6r8$1@news.xmission.com> <10jfs23$2liif$1@dont-email.me> <20260105105138.00005f0a@yahoo.com> <10jgbp7$2vdjt$1@news.xmission.com> <10jgdu9$2t8dh$1@nntp.eternal-september.org> <10jhkso$3c9r2$3@nntp.eternal-september.org> <20260106112938.00004446@yahoo.com> <10jj9st$3jbe4$2@dont-email.me> <20260106200522.000015ea@yahoo.com> <86jyxtpo6j.fsf@linuxsc.com> <10jm7f1$r6nl$2@dont-email.me> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Injection-Date: Thu, 08 Jan 2026 17:54:41 +0000 (UTC) Injection-Info: dont-email.me; posting-host="f646824e109d26d154da12d2f3c25277"; logging-data="1779847"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@eternal-september.org"; posting-account="U2FsdGVkX18W/A617FxCA3r6uuuADaTUrP0MjXBhSNo=" User-Agent: Gnus/5.11 (Gnus v5.11) Emacs/22.4 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:VKyb9h0KY4LsQeouUMnSRMeWFt4= sha1:RKnElvkbnzP8NKs2Tc5xsTvjJxk= Xref: csiph.com comp.lang.c:396304 "James Russell Kuyper Jr." writes: > On 2026-01-07 08:06, Tim Rentsch wrote: > >> scott@slp53.sl.home (Scott Lurndal) writes: >> >>> Michael S writes: >>> >>>> On Tue, 6 Jan 2026 10:31:41 -0500 >>>> James Kuyper wrote: >>>> >>>>> If you know that an expression has one of the standard-named types or >>>>> typedefs for with there is a corresponding printf() specifier, you >>>>> should use that specifier. Otherwise, if you know that an expression >>>>> has one of the types declared in , you should use the >>>>> corresponding macro #defined in to print it. >>>> >>>> I should? Really? >>>> Sorry, James, but you have no authority to make such statements. >>> >>> James is paraphrasing the C standard. >> >> Really? What passage in the C standard is being paraphrased? > > This is advice, not paraphrased text from the C standard. [...] I was responding to Scotty Lurndal's statement that the C standard was being paraphrased (by someone, it didn't matter to me who). I don't care about whether his statement is true; my interest is only in what part of the C standard he thinks is being paraphrased. He is in a position to answer that question, and more to the point he is the only person who is. Unrelated matter: a couple of your recent postings show a name change to a longer form of your name. I don't know what might have prompted that change, but for what it's worth I like the earlier shorter form better, if only for consistency with earlier postings.