Re: [Nmh-workers] date math -- format help???

[Bob Carragher]

On Tue, 16 Dec 2014 22:37:59 -0500 David Levine <address@hidden> sez:

> Bob wrote:
>
> > I'm on the US west coast, so the local time (in parentheses)
> > should be "-0800" (not "-480").
> >
> > Can someone explain why this happens?
>
> That's working as intended, per mh-format(5):
>
>     zone     date    integer  timezone in minutes
>
> Try this:
>
>     tzone    date    string   timezone string

Ah, okay, that works!  My man page is for the older NMH 1.5,
and says something critically different at this point:

            zone        date     integer  timezone in hours
            tzone       date     string   timezone string

Based on what "zone" was stated to return, and influenced by
the thread's discussion, I had assumed that "tzone" would
return a symbolic timezone name.

Thanks!

Bob