From: "Drew Adams" <drew.adams@oracle.com>
To: "'Juanma Barranquero'" <lekktu@gmail.com>,
<641@emacsbugs.donarmstrong.com>,
"'Lennart Borgman \(gmail\)'" <lennart.borgman@gmail.com>
Cc: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org, tzz@lifelogs.com
Subject: bug#641: format-time-string %Z does not work, starting with Emacs 22.2
Date: Thu, 7 Aug 2008 14:47:50 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <003301c8f8d7$3d42bc60$c2b22382@us.oracle.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <f7ccd24b0808071358g51697cb1xc43dacd1a96cefe4@mail.gmail.com>
> > I would expect there to be just a little bit more than 24
> > possible different return values from "%z". It would be 24
> > if all zones where whole hours different from UTC (or what
> > it is called now). But since some zones uses
> > half hours it could be more.
> >
> > However 87 is a surprisingly high figure for me.
>
> You're assuming too much. Countries in the same apparent time zone do
> not have to follow the same DST rules, for example.
Not just different DST rules, and not just language differences. Different
countries with regions in the same UTC offset can have different names for the
same zone: Cuba Summer Time and Chile Time are both UTC -04, for example.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-08-07 21:47 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 46+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-08-04 21:24 bug#641: format-time-string %Z does not work, starting with Emacs 22.2 martin rudalics
2008-08-04 22:07 ` Drew Adams
2008-08-05 6:28 ` martin rudalics
2008-08-05 18:34 ` Eli Zaretskii
2008-08-05 23:54 ` Drew Adams
2008-08-06 3:22 ` Eli Zaretskii
2008-08-06 5:40 ` Drew Adams
2008-08-06 18:53 ` Eli Zaretskii
2008-08-06 19:48 ` Drew Adams
2008-08-06 20:34 ` Juanma Barranquero
2008-08-06 23:05 ` Drew Adams
2008-08-07 3:16 ` Juanma Barranquero
[not found] ` <mailman.15951.1218049658.18990.bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2008-08-06 19:53 ` Ted Zlatanov
2008-08-06 21:20 ` Eli Zaretskii
2008-08-06 21:35 ` Juanma Barranquero
[not found] ` <mailman.15962.1218059257.18990.bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2008-08-07 13:20 ` Ted Zlatanov
2008-08-07 18:20 ` Eli Zaretskii
2008-08-07 18:51 ` Lennart Borgman (gmail)
2008-08-07 18:59 ` Eli Zaretskii
2008-08-07 20:14 ` Lennart Borgman (gmail)
2008-08-07 20:29 ` Eli Zaretskii
2008-08-07 20:36 ` Lennart Borgman (gmail)
2008-08-07 20:58 ` Juanma Barranquero
2008-08-07 21:04 ` Lennart Borgman (gmail)
2008-08-07 21:13 ` Juanma Barranquero
2008-08-07 21:31 ` Lennart Borgman (gmail)
2008-08-08 7:10 ` Eli Zaretskii
[not found] ` <mailman.16075.1218180793.18990.bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2008-08-08 15:04 ` Ted Zlatanov
2008-08-08 15:57 ` Drew Adams
2008-08-08 17:22 ` Eli Zaretskii
2008-08-08 17:27 ` Drew Adams
2008-08-09 1:00 ` ＯＦＦＩＣＥ ZERO
2008-08-09 14:13 ` ＯＦＦＩＣＥ ZERO
2008-08-08 18:46 ` Stefan Monnier
2008-08-09 0:59 ` ＯＦＦＩＣＥ ZERO
2008-08-08 18:47 ` Andreas Schwab
2008-08-09 1:01 ` ＯＦＦＩＣＥ ZERO
2008-08-09 14:13 ` ＯＦＦＩＣＥ ZERO
2008-08-09 1:01 ` ＯＦＦＩＣＥ ZERO
2008-08-08 17:16 ` Eli Zaretskii
2008-08-09 14:12 ` ＯＦＦＩＣＥ ZERO
2008-08-08 7:21 ` Eli Zaretskii
2008-08-07 21:47 ` Drew Adams [this message]
2008-08-07 21:20 ` martin rudalics
2008-08-08 7:17 ` Eli Zaretskii
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2008-08-01 16:45 Drew Adams
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