On 2019-03-10 23:20:19 +0000, Maurice Kinal -> mark lewis said:

> Hey mark!
>
>   ml> one ""problem"" here is that you are using RFC-oriented tools...
>
> No I am not.  I already have stated many times that it is strftime()
> based which can and is being used to create RFC compatible datetime
> strings but can also create obsolete ftn datetime strings;
>
>    date +"%d %b %y  %T" = 10 Mar 19  18:24:42
>
>   ml> they do not work like FTN tools
>
> What FTN tools?  I am still waiting for a working example of something
> that gets it 'right' according to the fts-4008.002.


Coming soon... since I am writing everything here from the bottom up - part of
the Nodelist name decision for me 2 years ago "Fido Support". I want to build
test cases, code, systems to test against - so new developers get from our
platform what they are used to finding available on the Internet platform. Even
 if I have to code our examples for multiple languages (which is something I
always thought FTSC and old RFC should have done).

Like your date example, making it along with others available in the same
document. In the Pascal world we have FormatDatetime('DD mmm YY HH:NN:SS',Now).
 In Python we have datetime.datetime.now().strftime("%d %b %y  %T" // Thanks
to you showing me %T

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