Not to flog unnecessarily an expired equine, you say: > C's printf has had the "%a" conversion since forever That turns out not to be the case. Would you care

Not to flog unnecessarily an expired equine, you say: > C's printf has had the "%a" conversion since forever That turns out not to be the case. Would you care to guess: * Which year it was first introduced? * Which year it became wide-spread? * When I started programming? * How old some of the systems are in which I still work?