R devel - Aug 1999 - date() should not append a final "\n" ?!?

Between R 0.63.2 and 0.64, the behavior of 
  date()
has been changed in order to become platform independent.
It now uses POSIX calls, basically

    time_t t;
    time(&t);
    return ctime(&t);


This currently returns (for me on Sun SPARC Solaris)

  > date()
  [1] "Thu Aug 19 10:36:28 1999\n"

where I think the final "\n" is really UNdesired.

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Is this just my (Sun's) version of ctime(), i.e.,
does anyone *NOT* get the final new line ?

Thanks for your feedback.
Martin Maechler <maechler@stat.math.ethz.ch>
http://stat.ethz.ch/~maechler/
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>>>>> On Thu, 19 Aug 1999 10:45:35 +0200,
>>>>> Martin Maechler (MM) wrote:
MM> Between R 0.63.2 and 0.64, the behavior of 
MM>   date()
MM> has been changed in order to become platform independent.
MM> It now uses POSIX calls, basically

MM>     time_t t;
MM>     time(&t);
MM>     return ctime(&t);


MM> This currently returns (for me on Sun SPARC Solaris)
>> date()
MM>   [1] "Thu Aug 19 10:36:28 1999\n"

MM> where I think the final "\n" is really UNdesired.

Yes!


MM> ---
MM> Is this just my (Sun's) version of ctime(), i.e.,
MM> does anyone *NOT* get the final new line ?


Debian Linux:

R> date()
[1] "Thu Aug 19 10:47:17 1999\n"


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