bug#5408: date-to-time problem

[Juanma Barranquero]

On Mon, Jan 18, 2010 at 01:00, Lennart Borgman
<lennart.borgman@gmail.com> wrote:

> But date-to-time does not say that it assumes GMT.

No. Perhaps it should.

> And current-time-string does not say it will give my local time.

It seems fair to default to your local timezone. Note that there's
also a `current-time-zone', so

ELISP> (current-time-zone)
(3600 "+0100")

ELISP> (current-time-zone (date-to-time "Sun Jan 17 22:39:58 2010"))
(3600 "+0100")

    Juanma