>Does %(timenow) have a purpose? Yeah, although probably not what you're thinking of.
The idea is that you could use that in calculations against a date header. (e.g., %(timenow) - %(clock) would give you an offset, although there is %(rclock that does that for you). Things like %(month) are designed to parse a date header, since that's hard to do from the shell. I could see the value of maybe doing something to break out a inside of mh-format, but ... what would that look like? Maybe take a strftime() format string? Might need some thought. Not sure we could use existing functions since they really want a component. >Separately, does anyone have a suggestion for generating the >current date in a reply? Sure. Have a wrapper script shove it into an enviroment variable and use %(getenv). --Ken _______________________________________________ Nmh-workers mailing list [email protected] https://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/nmh-workers
