Re: Question about sprintf

["John E. Davis" <davis>]

Morten Bo Johansen <mojo@xxxxxxxx> wrote:
>I suppose I need to call the "date" command for this? I tried
>
>    run_shell_cmd (sprintf ("date +%Y-%m-%d %H:%M"));

Use the localtime function, which returns a structure that you can use
to write the data in any format that you want.  See
$JED_ROOT/lib/chglog.sl for an example of its use.

>The next question is not really jed related but perhaps someone
>could tell me what command could be used to get one's time zone
>in the format specified above?

The gmtime function returns the time in GMT.  You can probably use it
and localtime to figure out the timezone offset.

Good luck,
--John

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