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

[David Levine]

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.

David