On 20/6/24 21:19, The Wanderer wrote:
On 2024-06-20 at 07:10, Greg Wooledge wrote:
On Thu, Jun 20, 2024 at 21:00:38 +1000, Keith Bainbridge wrote:
https://manpages.debian.org/bookworm/manpages-dev/strftime.3.en.html
is a list of place names for MANY parts of a date layout. I have set up the
following code in my text substitution app:
"%a %d%b%Y at %H:%M:%S =UTC %Z"
Triggering that give me
Thu 20Jun2024 at 20:51:19 =UTC +10:00
Seems to me that if the code writers of our various MUA would add the +UTC
to the line that prints the various dates, we'd understand what they mean
better.
Honestly, I have no idea what the =UTC part of your output is intended
to mean, since you've got +10:00 (time zone offset specification in hours
ahead of UTC) overriding it.
I parsed it as meaning "[date and time] is equal to UTC plus ten hours",
or in other words, "the time specified is in the UTC+10 time-zone".
Similarly to how I often seen Eastern Standard Time referenced as UTC-4
(that is, UTC minus four hours).
Normally, you put either the string UTC to indicate that this date/time
string is in UTC, or a time zone offset indicator that begins with + or -.
Not both.
It may be notable that he didn't put a +- offset indicator; he put a
format specifier which *expands to* whichever such indicator would
correspond to the active time zone.
And doesn't this exchange show that
Sat 22Jun2024 at 18:27:55 +10:00
can be interpreted in two ways?
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All the best
Keith Bainbridge
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UTC + 10:00
