[issue8957] strptime(.., '%c') fails to parse output of strftime('%c', ..) in some locales

[Alexander Belopolsky]

Alexander Belopolsky <belopolsky at users.sourceforge.net> added the comment:

On Tue, Jan 11, 2011 at 7:26 PM, Roumen Petrov <report at bugs.python.org> wrote:
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> - locales with %A and %B are broken on this platform as %c is "Appropriate date and time representation (%c) with abbreviations"

According to what standard? POSIX defines it as

%c Replaced by the locale's appropriate date and time representation.

http://pubs.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/009695399/functions/strftime.html

and the manual page on my system agrees:

 %c    is replaced by national representation of time and date.

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