From: Jason Green <news AT jgreen4 DOT fsnet DOT co DOT uk>
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Subject: Re: strftime: Need Help with Time Offsets
Date: Thu, 28 Dec 2000 01:01:19 +0000
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Martin Str|mberg <ams AT father DOT ludd DOT luth DOT se> wrote:

> Wouldn't it be good to point out the format is "HHMM" or however we
> can express this?

Sure.

--- src/libc/ansi/time/strftime.txh.orig  Mon Aug  2 12:28:18 1999
+++ src/libc/ansi/time/strftime.txh     Wed Dec 27 18:54:42 2000
@@ -149,6 +149,12 @@

 The timezone abbreviation (@code{EDT})

+@item %z
+
+The time-zone as hour offset from UTC in the ISO 8601 format
+(@code{-0430}) (meaning 4 hours 30 minutes behind UTC, west of
+Greenwich)
+
 @item %%

 A percent symbol (@code{%})