date() should not append a final "\n" ?!?

[Martin Maechler]

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.

---
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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