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From: "Drew Adams" <drew.adams@oracle.com>
To: <9794@debbugs.gnu.org>
Subject: bug#9794: 24.0.90; `format-time-string' no good for %Z
Date: Wed, 19 Oct 2011 00:43:28 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <24FDB65B0E784E978085D30A7CBF9FAF@us.oracle.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <68A313A7DDAA4912A255DAFE495606F9@us.oracle.com>

Didn't realize this bug was already filed as #641.

It's unfortunate that nothing was ever done about this regression.

I stumbled on it again only because of someone else's code that uses "...(%Z)".
And that is likely to be fairly common, given that people not on Windows will
not know that %Z in Emacs is broken on Windows.  How many Emacs users use
Windows?  How long will this be ignored, so they continue to see "...()" instead
of something meaningful to them?

Stefan's bottom line in the #641 bug thread was this:

"I could live with it, tho its usefulness is far from obvious.
 In any case it would not be for Emacs-23 and I'd recommend potential
 hackers to work on something else as that's more likely to be useful."

Poor Emacs.  Poor users.  It's usefulness is completely obvious: Windows users
lose information that is meant to help them.  And just because a non-Windows
developer thinks that letting them see "(Pacific Daylight Time)" is not useful
to them and "()" is more meaningful.  Sheesh.






  reply	other threads:[~2011-10-19  7:43 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 26+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2011-10-19  6:44 bug#9794: 24.0.90; `format-time-string' no good for %Z Drew Adams
2011-10-19  7:43 ` Drew Adams [this message]
2011-10-19  8:33   ` Eli Zaretskii
2011-10-19 13:20     ` Jason Rumney
2011-10-19 14:28       ` Drew Adams
2011-10-19 15:26       ` Eli Zaretskii
2011-10-19 16:08       ` Eli Zaretskii
2011-10-20  7:48         ` Paul Eggert
2011-10-20  9:24           ` Eli Zaretskii
2011-10-20  9:46             ` Andreas Schwab
2011-10-20 10:05               ` Eli Zaretskii
2011-10-20 10:10                 ` Andreas Schwab
2011-10-20 10:49                   ` Eli Zaretskii
2011-10-20 11:22                     ` Andreas Schwab
2011-10-20 12:58                       ` Eli Zaretskii
2011-10-20 13:06                         ` Andreas Schwab
2011-10-20 13:18                           ` Eli Zaretskii
2011-10-20 15:23                         ` Paul Eggert
2011-10-20 16:03                           ` Eli Zaretskii
2011-10-21 15:40             ` Jason Rumney
2011-10-21 17:34               ` Paul Eggert
2011-10-22  9:21               ` bug#641: " Eli Zaretskii
2011-10-19 14:29     ` Drew Adams
2011-10-19 15:13       ` Eli Zaretskii
2011-10-19  7:47 ` Eli Zaretskii
2011-10-19 14:28   ` Drew Adams

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