From: Jambunathan K <kjambunathan@gmail.com>
To: Andreas Schwab <schwab@linux-m68k.org>
Cc: 11807@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#11807: M-x display-time-world & EDT/DST
Date: Thu, 28 Jun 2012 14:32:15 +0530 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <814npvkdwo.fsf@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <m2fw9f7r58.fsf@igel.home> (Andreas Schwab's message of "Thu, 28 Jun 2012 10:54:43 +0200")
Andreas Schwab <schwab@linux-m68k.org> writes:
> Jambunathan K <kjambunathan@gmail.com> writes:
>
>> ,---- http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/city.html?n=179
>> |
>> | Current Time|Wednesday, 27 June 2012, 05:27:42 EDT <=== Time now
>
> Looking at it now I see 04:54, which agrees with what display-time-world
> shows.
May be it has something to do with locale settings.
This is what I see *now.
Seattle Thursday 28 June 00:56 PDT
New York Thursday 28 June 03:56 EDT <=== This is off by 1-hr.
London Thursday 28 June 08:56 BST
Paris Thursday 28 June 09:56 CDT
Bangalore Thursday 28 June 14:26 IST <=== Local time. This is correct
Tokyo Thursday 28 June 17:56 JST
>> | ("IST-5:30" "Bangalore") <=== Why this ''minus''. Isn't IST = GMT+5:30?
>
> For the same reason New York is EST5EDT.
It is consistent but counter-intuitive. It is a gotcha.
> Andreas.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2012-06-28 9:02 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 19+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2012-06-28 8:05 bug#11807: M-x display-time-world & EDT/DST Jambunathan K
2002-01-01 0:30 ` Jambunathan K
2012-06-28 8:54 ` Andreas Schwab
2012-06-28 9:02 ` Jambunathan K [this message]
2012-06-28 9:39 ` Andreas Schwab
2012-06-28 10:00 ` Jambunathan K
2012-06-28 10:34 ` Andreas Schwab
2012-06-28 10:50 ` Jambunathan K
2012-06-28 12:18 ` Andreas Schwab
2012-06-28 13:54 ` Jambunathan K
2012-06-28 14:38 ` Andreas Schwab
2012-06-28 14:54 ` Jambunathan K
2012-06-28 15:37 ` Andreas Schwab
2012-06-29 9:26 ` bug#11807: (Windows XP issue?) " Jambunathan K
2012-06-29 10:31 ` Eli Zaretskii
2012-06-29 10:40 ` Jambunathan K
2012-06-30 3:37 ` Jason Rumney
2012-06-30 5:43 ` Jambunathan K
2012-06-30 6:13 ` Eli Zaretskii
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