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Subject: |
format-time-string %Z does not work, starting with Emacs 22.2 |
Date: |
Fri, 1 Aug 2008 09:45:28 -0700 |
emacs -Q
M-: (format-time-string "%Z) ==> ""
M-: (format-time-string "%z) ==> "-0700"
The %Z string is incorrect. In my case, it should be (as it is in
Emacs 20 and Emacs 22.1): "Pacific Daylight Time".
This same bug appears in Emacs 23. This is a regression from Emacs
22.1.
In GNU Emacs 22.2.1 (i386-mingw-nt5.1.2600)
of 2008-03-26 on RELEASE
Windowing system distributor `Microsoft Corp.', version 5.1.2600
configured using `configure --with-gcc (3.4)'
Important settings:
value of $LC_ALL: nil
value of $LC_COLLATE: nil
value of $LC_CTYPE: nil
value of $LC_MESSAGES: nil
value of $LC_MONETARY: nil
value of $LC_NUMERIC: nil
value of $LC_TIME: nil
value of $LANG: ENU
locale-coding-system: cp1252
default-enable-multibyte-characters: t
Major mode: Help
Minor modes in effect:
encoded-kbd-mode: t
tooltip-mode: t
tool-bar-mode: t
mouse-wheel-mode: t
menu-bar-mode: t
file-name-shadow-mode: t
global-font-lock-mode: t
font-lock-mode: t
blink-cursor-mode: t
unify-8859-on-encoding-mode: t
utf-translate-cjk-mode: t
auto-compression-mode: t
line-number-mode: t
view-mode: t
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Subject: |
Re: bug#9794: 24.0.90; `format-time-string' no good for %Z |
Date: |
Sat, 22 Oct 2011 11:21:57 +0200 |
> From: Jason Rumney <address@hidden>
> Cc: Paul Eggert <address@hidden>, address@hidden, address@hidden
> Date: Fri, 21 Oct 2011 23:40:20 +0800
>
> So Paul is probably correct - we should not worry about RFC / POSIX or
> whatever compliance for %Z.
Thanks. So, since everybody agrees, I committed as revision 106162
the changes to nt/config.nt that make current-time-zone and the
strftime's %Z format return a non-empty string on MS-Windows.
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