Re: [PATCH] mingw: use modern strftime implementation if possible

> "Johannes Schindelin via GitGitGadget" <gitgitgadget@gmail.com>
> writes:
>
> > From: =?UTF-8?q?Matthias=20A=C3=9Fhauer?= <mha1993@live.de>
> >
> > Microsoft introduced a new "Universal C Runtime Library" (UCRT) with
> > Visual Studio 2015. The UCRT comes with a new strftime() implementation
> > that supports more date formats. We link git against the older
> > "Microsoft Visual C Runtime Library" (MSVCRT), so to use the UCRT
> > strftime() we need to load it from ucrtbase.dll using
> > DECLARE_PROC_ADDR()/INIT_PROC_ADDR().
> >
> > Most supported Windows systems should have recieved the UCRT via Windows
> > update, but in some cases only MSVCRT might be available. In that case
> > we fall back to using that implementation.
> >
> > With this change, it is possible to use e.g. the `%g` and `%V` date
> > format specifiers, e.g.
> >
> > 	git show -s --format=%cd --date=format:‘%g.%V’ HEAD
> >
> > Without this change, the user would see this error message on Windows:
> >
> > 	fatal: invalid strftime format: '‘%g.%V’'
> >
> > This fixes https://github.com/git-for-windows/git/issues/2495
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Matthias Aßhauer <mha1993@live.de>
> > Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
> > ---
> >     Use a modern strftime() on Windows when available
> >
> >     This is another contribution that came in via Git for Windows.
>
> Sure.  It would be very surprising if contribution to compat/mingw.c
> came in via Git on Macintosh ;-)