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Re: calendar gets wrong end for Daylight Savings Time
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Kim F. Storm |
Subject: |
Re: calendar gets wrong end for Daylight Savings Time |
Date: |
Wed, 08 Nov 2006 10:22:25 +0100 |
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Gnus/5.11 (Gnus v5.11) Emacs/22.0.90 (gnu/linux) |
Eli Zaretskii <address@hidden> writes:
>> From: Richard Stallman <address@hidden>
>> Date: Tue, 07 Nov 2006 23:18:08 -0500
>> Cc: address@hidden, address@hidden, address@hidden
>>
>> That sounds like exactly the right thing for the Emacs calendar to
>> consult.
>
> I don't think Emacs needs to consult tzdata, because on system that
> have it, the library functions which handle time, such as mktime,
> already consult that data base. So the times you get from the library
> are already correctly taking into account the DST settings for the
> correct year.
But it's not just a matter of whether DST applies to the current time & date.
I would assume that M-x calendar must use the database directly to
find out _when_ DST starts and ends to print the calendar correctly.
--
Kim F. Storm <address@hidden> http://www.cua.dk
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- Re: calendar gets wrong end for Daylight Savings Time, Richard Stallman, 2006/11/07
- Re: calendar gets wrong end for Daylight Savings Time, Eli Zaretskii, 2006/11/07
- Re: calendar gets wrong end for Daylight Savings Time,
Kim F. Storm <=
- Re: calendar gets wrong end for Daylight Savings Time, Richard Stallman, 2006/11/08
- Re: calendar gets wrong end for Daylight Savings Time, Glenn Morris, 2006/11/08
- Re: calendar gets wrong end for Daylight Savings Time, James Cloos, 2006/11/09
- Re: calendar gets wrong end for Daylight Savings Time, Glenn Morris, 2006/11/09
- Re: calendar gets wrong end for Daylight Savings Time, Eli Zaretskii, 2006/11/09
- Re: calendar gets wrong end for Daylight Savings Time, Glenn Morris, 2006/11/09
- Re: calendar gets wrong end for Daylight Savings Time, James Cloos, 2006/11/09
- Re: calendar gets wrong end for Daylight Savings Time, Glenn Morris, 2006/11/09
- Re: calendar gets wrong end for Daylight Savings Time, Eli Zaretskii, 2006/11/08
- Re: calendar gets wrong end for Daylight Savings Time, Glenn Morris, 2006/11/09