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

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----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Eli Zaretskii" <eliz@gnu.org>
To: "Ted Zlatanov" <tzz@lifelogs.com>
Cc: <bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
Sent: Saturday, August 09, 2008 2:16 AM
Subject: bug#641: format-time-string %Z does not work,starting with Emacs 
22.2


>> From: Ted Zlatanov <tzz@lifelogs.com>
>> Date: Fri, 08 Aug 2008 10:04:24 -0500
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>> Closest I could find is this chart:
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>> http://unicode.org/cldr/data/diff/supplemental/windows_tzid.html
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> Thanks.  I knew about it, it's on my disk for quite some time.
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>> 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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> Sorry, but I object to partial solutions like this, since I don't
> think providing just English names will satisfy most users.
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> Perhaps someone could search the Windows files and find the
> translations; they must be somewhere inside the Windows installation,
> since the name of the time zone changes as soon as you modify a
> certain option in the regional settings.
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>> In addition, we can attempt to guess the right value based on the
>> localized string and offset, e.g. Hebrew is probably Israel's time
>> zone.
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> Hebrew is an easy case, because the characters tell you unequivocally
> what is the locale.  Latin letters, for example, are much harder.
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