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Subject: Re: printf and time_t
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scott@slp53.sl.home (Scott Lurndal) writes:

> Michael S <already5chosen@yahoo.com> writes:
>
>> On Tue, 6 Jan 2026 10:31:41 -0500
>> James Kuyper <jameskuyper@alumni.caltech.edu> 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 <stdint.h>, you should use the
>>> corresponding macro #defined in <inttypes.h> 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?