Re: Incorrect time zone setting

[Gunnar Vestergaard]

Reiner Steib wrote Jan 7th about a time zone issue in Emacs and gnus:
> On Wed, Jan 06 2010, Gunnar Vestergaard wrote:
> > How do I evaluate this into an expression in Emacs? I don't know anything
> > about LISP.
>
> Several options:
>
> - M-x ielm RET
>
> ,----[ M-x ielm RET ]
> | *** Welcome to IELM ***  Type (describe-mode) for help.
> | ELISP> (format-time-string "%a, %d %b %Y %T %z" nil)
> | "Thu, 07 Jan 2010 20:08:59 +0100"

I did that and the string displayed was
"Thu, 21 Jan 2010 16:55:04 -0100"
It should instead be +0000, as I am now in another time zone than when 
my original message was posted.

> | ELISP> (let ((system-time-locale "C"))
> |        (format-time-string "%a, %d %b %Y %T %z" nil))
> | "Thu, 07 Jan 2010 20:09:02 +0100"
> | ELISP> (message-make-date)
> | "Thu, 07 Jan 2010 20:09:12 +0100"
> | ELISP> 
> `----
>
> - in the *scratch* buffer, use `C-j' after an expression
>
> - M-: runs the command eval-expression

Gunnar Vestergaard
Torshavn, Faroe Islands