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Hi
It appears that there is no easy way to obtain the *numeric* offset between
localtime and gmtime.
This info is desirable for composing dates for email messages
eg
Mon, 25 Oct 1999 18:58:34 -0400
or
Mon, 25 Oct 1999 18:58:20 -0400 (EDT)
with strftime the best you can do is:
Mon, 25 Oct 1999 18:58:20 (EDT)
strftime can not generate the "-0400"
Yes it is possible to write a routine (as Larry Rosler has) that
computes this offset from the localtime and the gmtime
BUT it seems like such a waste of cycles, especially since the
information has to be in there some where to compute the localtime
in the firstplace.
Part of the problem is that POSIX seems to provide no easy way to
get at this information.
As a solution, I would advocate adding another %token to strftime
that provides this information.
Why do I worry about cycles? I'd like to write a perl script
that is invoked by sendmail and forwards the mail
(with appropriately added Received line (with date))
to the appropriate component of a multihost e-mail-list server
implementation here at Cornell University. The current scheme
seems sluggish ... and an unnecessary waste of cycles.
I might also suggest adding %tokens that return dates
formated according to the RFCs for email, news and widely used
protocols, to reduce badness in these areas.
Regards,
Todd
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