bug#641: format-time-string %Z does not work, starting with Emacs 22.2

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----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Drew Adams" <drew.adams@oracle.com>
To: "'Ted Zlatanov'" <tzz@lifelogs.com>; <bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
Sent: Saturday, August 09, 2008 12:57 AM
Subject: bug#641: format-time-string %Z does not work,starting with Emacs 
22.2


>> We could at least provide this, and if the mapping fails we
>> could print a message that it's an unknown string, and the
>> user can submit a bug. %Z could show the full Windows-provided
>> name, which IMHO is better than nothing.
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> Yes, my point from the beginning is that the Windows name can be better 
> than
> nothing, depending on your needs.
>
> It depends on what you want/need in any given context. I agree with Eli 
> that we
> also need to let users specify, when they need it, a name guaranteed to be
> Posix-compliant, which would be "" if no other Posix name is appropriate.
>
> IOW, we should give users _both_ possibilities unambiguously: Posix-only 
> and
> possibly-non-Posix, better-than-nothing, YMMV, human-readable name.
>
> We can do that by introducing a new format key, in addition to %Z. Either 
> %Z or
> the new key can be for the better-than-nothing, human-readable name. %Z 
> for this
> has the advantage of backward compatibility. %Z for the Posix-compliant 
> name has
> the advantage that "Z" is itself a Posix convention.
>
> I'm OK with either approach. The important thing is to give users the 
> option of
> specifying either name format, depending on their needs.
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