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Re: [Nmh-workers] date math -- format help???
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Bob Carragher |
Subject: |
Re: [Nmh-workers] date math -- format help??? |
Date: |
Thu, 18 Dec 2014 02:52:11 -0800 |
On Wed, 17 Dec 2014 09:53:07 -0500 David Levine <address@hidden> sez:
> Bob wrote:
>
> > By the way, there seems to be a formatting bug with "zone"
> > when specifying wide fields with "leading" zeros. For example,
> > if you specify the Date: field this way
> >
> >
> > Date:formatfield="%<(nodate{text})%{text}%|%(pretty{text})%(void(szone{t
> > ext}))%<(eq
> > 1) %(date2local{text})%08(zone{text})%>%>"
> >
> > You get
> >
> > Tue, 16 Dec 2014 23:24:30 -0500 0000-480
> >
> > I'm guessing negative integers were not expected by the
> > padding function? And perhaps it was also fixed with 1.6
> > (or afterward)?
>
> It hasn't been fixed. 1.6 does provide fmttest -trace, which helps
> isolate the problem. The number formatting function pads after
> inserting the - sign, ooops. I'll fix it tonight.
Yet another reason to upgrade to 1.6. B-) Thanks!
Bob