/*
* There is no portable way to pass timezone information to
- * strftime, so we handle %z and %Z here.
+ * strftime, so we handle %z and %Z here. Likewise '%s', because
+ * going back to an epoch time requires knowing the zone.
+ *
+ * Note that tz_offset is in the "[-+]HHMM" decimal form; this is what
+ * we want for %z, but the computation for %s has to convert to number
+ * of seconds.
*/
for (;;) {
const char *percent = strchrnul(fmt, '%');
strbuf_addstr(&munged_fmt, "%%");
fmt++;
break;
+ case 's':
+ strbuf_addf(&munged_fmt, "%"PRItime,
+ (timestamp_t)tm_to_time_t(tm) -
+ 3600 * (tz_offset / 100) -
+ 60 * (tz_offset % 100));
+ fmt++;
+ break;
case 'z':
strbuf_addf(&munged_fmt, "%+05d", tz_offset);
fmt++;