Re: [Chicken-users] rfc822

[Kon Lovett]

On Aug 3, 2006, at 6:13 PM, Daishi Kato wrote:

> On 8/4/06, Kon Lovett <address@hidden> wrote:
> > > P.S. Can anybody explain why it does "abs" for rem?
> >
> > Probably because tz could be negative & only one breakdown component
> > should carry the sign.
>
> I may misunderstand something, but
> if the tz is -230, it is going to be -5400 instead of -9000.
> Is it what it should be?

Spoke w/o looking at the code.

The expr looks wrong to me. I think this is a better way to get the  
offset in seconds:

        (if (zero? tz)
            0
            (let ([hr (abs (quotient tz 100))]) [mn (abs (remainder tz 100))])
                (* (signum tz) (+ (* hr 3600) (* mn 60)))))

> Daishi