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Re: 23.0.50; on Windows, M-x display-time-world shows the same, incorrec


From: Phil Sung
Subject: Re: 23.0.50; on Windows, M-x display-time-world shows the same, incorrect, time for all cities
Date: Wed, 17 Oct 2007 19:08:57 -0400

On 10/17/07, Eli Zaretskii <address@hidden> wrote:
> >     Seattle   Wednesday 10 October 17:49
> >     New York  Wednesday 10 October 17:49
> >     London    Wednesday 10 October 17:49
> >     Paris     Wednesday 10 October 17:49
> >     Bangalore Wednesday 10 October 17:49
> >     Tokyo     Wednesday 10 October 17:49
>
> This is because the implementation of this command uses time-zone
> specifications that are not portable enough, and in particular cannot
> work on Windows.  The problem is in the value of the option
> `display-time-world-list'.

Furthermore, display-time-world does not display the current day,
which I assume it is supposed to do. (It says "10 October" rather than
the current date, "17 October", on every line.)

Perhaps display-time-world-time-format should be "%A %d %B %R %Z"
rather than "%A %m %B %R %Z"?

--Phil




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