From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 11514 invoked from network); 10 Oct 2003 12:56:47 -0000 Received: from sunsite.dk (130.225.247.90) by ns1.primenet.com.au with SMTP; 10 Oct 2003 12:56:47 -0000 Received: (qmail 23224 invoked by alias); 10 Oct 2003 12:56:32 -0000 Mailing-List: contact zsh-users-help@sunsite.dk; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk X-No-Archive: yes X-Seq: 6685 Received: (qmail 23180 invoked from network); 10 Oct 2003 12:56:32 -0000 Received: from localhost (HELO sunsite.dk) (127.0.0.1) by localhost with SMTP; 10 Oct 2003 12:56:32 -0000 X-MessageWall-Score: 0 (sunsite.dk) Received: from [195.64.83.12] by sunsite.dk (MessageWall 1.0.8) with SMTP; 10 Oct 2003 12:56:32 -0000 Received: by timix.globnix.org with local id 1A7wop-0001PW-00; Fri, 10 Oct 2003 12:56:31 +0000 Date: Fri, 10 Oct 2003 12:56:30 +0000 From: Phil Pennock To: zsh-users@sunsite.dk Subject: Re: Useful zsh/datetime things Message-ID: <20031010125630.GB15016@globnix.org> Mail-Followup-To: zsh-users@sunsite.dk References: <22603.1065722644@csr.com> <1031009172754.ZM10491@candle.brasslantern.com> <20031009181245.GA22161@globnix.org> <1031010021511.ZM11252@candle.brasslantern.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <1031010021511.ZM11252@candle.brasslantern.com> On 2003-10-10 at 02:15 +0000, Bart Schaefer wrote: > Which is how it's supposed to be formatted for RFC{2,}822 et al., and is > how `date -R` does it. Is there a POSIX way to get the zone hours offset > from UT? [ It's actually adopted from ISO 8601. The standards track RFC introducing an ISO 8601 profile for Internet use is RFC 3339. ] POSIX: Not that I've seen, but I'm hardly a POSIX spec expert. I submitted a patch for FreeBSD 3.x some time ago; the change-request PR was closed a couple of years later on the basis that the functionality had already been added, and referred to the relevant PR which showed it -- the same one! They closed my PR by referring to my PR. Head-in-hands moment ... Some rough code from me, submitted explicitly for a BSD-licensed OS and available for zsh is at: But do you want the module to be explicitly extending the OS strftime() if that's missing expansions? Would be a powerful reason to _use_ the module. -- 2001: Blogging invented. Promises to change the way people bore strangers with banal anecdotes about their pets.