From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: "Lennart Borgman (gmail)" Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.bugs Subject: bug#641: format-time-string %Z does not work, starting with Emacs 22.2 Date: Thu, 07 Aug 2008 20:51:11 +0200 Message-ID: <489B441F.6070402@gmail.com> References: <4897737C.90709@gmx.at> <001501c8f67e$7c63b300$0200a8c0@us.oracle.com> <008601c8f756$9bce0f00$0200a8c0@us.oracle.com> <00a001c8f786$fa665d30$0200a8c0@us.oracle.com> <86skthj4yf.fsf@lifelogs.com> <86fxphgdw1.fsf@lifelogs.com> Reply-To: "Lennart Borgman \(gmail\)" , 641@emacsbugs.donarmstrong.com NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1218136098 22221 80.91.229.12 (7 Aug 2008 19:08:18 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 7 Aug 2008 19:08:18 +0000 (UTC) Cc: Ted Zlatanov , bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org To: Eli Zaretskii , 641@emacsbugs.donarmstrong.com Original-X-From: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Aug 07 21:09:08 2008 Return-path: Envelope-to: geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1KRAr7-00064C-UC for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 07 Aug 2008 21:09:02 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:59307 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1KRAqC-0003ib-EK for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 07 Aug 2008 15:08:04 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1KRApj-0003Dl-Ah for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 07 Aug 2008 15:07:35 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1KRAph-0003Al-B1 for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 07 Aug 2008 15:07:34 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=60632 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1KRApg-0003AE-Ls for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 07 Aug 2008 15:07:32 -0400 Original-Received: from rzlab.ucr.edu ([138.23.92.77]:35079) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:DHE_RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1KRApg-0008HP-Co for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 07 Aug 2008 15:07:32 -0400 Original-Received: from rzlab.ucr.edu (rzlab.ucr.edu [127.0.0.1]) by rzlab.ucr.edu (8.13.8/8.13.8/Debian-3) with ESMTP id m77J7NuP020275; Thu, 7 Aug 2008 12:07:23 -0700 Original-Received: (from debbugs@localhost) by rzlab.ucr.edu (8.13.8/8.13.8/Submit) id m77J06SN016964; Thu, 7 Aug 2008 12:00:06 -0700 X-Loop: don@donarmstrong.com Resent-From: "Lennart Borgman (gmail)" Resent-To: bug-submit-list@donarmstrong.com Resent-CC: Emacs Bugs , don@donarmstrong.com Resent-Date: Thu, 07 Aug 2008 19:00:05 +0000 Resent-Message-ID: Resent-Sender: don@donarmstrong.com X-Emacs-PR-Message: report 641 X-Emacs-PR-Package: emacs,w32 X-Emacs-PR-Keywords: Original-Received: via spool by 641-submit@emacsbugs.donarmstrong.com id=B641.121813508815072 (code B ref 641); Thu, 07 Aug 2008 19:00:05 +0000 Original-Received: (at 641) by emacsbugs.donarmstrong.com; 7 Aug 2008 18:51:28 +0000 Original-Received: from ch-smtp01.sth.basefarm.net (ch-smtp01.sth.basefarm.net [80.76.149.212]) by rzlab.ucr.edu (8.13.8/8.13.8/Debian-3) with ESMTP id m77IpOGO015066 for <641@emacsbugs.donarmstrong.com>; Thu, 7 Aug 2008 11:51:26 -0700 Original-Received: from c83-254-151-176.bredband.comhem.se ([83.254.151.176]:64189 helo=[127.0.0.1]) by ch-smtp01.sth.basefarm.net with esmtp (Exim 4.68) (envelope-from ) id 1KRAa3-00005b-5Y; Thu, 07 Aug 2008 20:51:24 +0200 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8.1.9) Gecko/20071031 Thunderbird/2.0.0.9 Mnenhy/0.7.5.666 In-Reply-To: X-Antivirus: avast! 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X-Scan-Signature: ch-smtp01.sth.basefarm.net 1KRAa3-00005b-5Y efdf8446198443d4aa59dda1592b5515 X-detected-kernel: by monty-python.gnu.org: Linux 2.6 (newer, 3) Resent-Date: Thu, 07 Aug 2008 15:07:34 -0400 X-BeenThere: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors" List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.bugs:19109 Eli Zaretskii wrote: >> From: Ted Zlatanov >> Date: Thu, 07 Aug 2008 08:20:46 -0500 >> >> We could build a database of known Microsoft timezones and map them to >> ISO timezones. It has to be done just once and then updated very >> rarely--timezone names don't change often. The full list of timezones >> is in >> >> HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\Time Zones > > I already mentioned this possibility in an earlier message here. The > problem is that what you actually see in `tzname' could be a localized > name, not the US English name. So unless someone finds (or crafts) an > exhaustive list of all TZ names both in English and in any localized > language to which each one could be translated by Windows, this will > work only on some machines. How many time zones are there?