On 2008年7月18日, Greg Troxel wrote: > I read the NEWS for gettext 0.17, and it didn't say anything about > printf argument reordering. Is that something specified in POSIX, or a > Linuxism, or something else? I can see it being useful for > printing internationalized dates. I don't know who did it first, but SUSv3 calls it an "XSI" option. It's not in the C99 standard, or in NetBSD's libc. See <http://www.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/009695399/functions/sprintf.html>, which uses internationalised dates as an example. --apb (Alan Barrett)