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From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
To: Andreas Schwab <schwab@linux-m68k.org>
Cc: eggert@cs.ucla.edu, 9794@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#9794: 24.0.90; `format-time-string' no good for %Z
Date: Thu, 20 Oct 2011 14:58:51 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <831uu7u8dw.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <m3botbewlp.fsf@hase.home>

> From: Andreas Schwab <schwab@linux-m68k.org>
> Cc: eggert@cs.ucla.edu,  9794@debbugs.gnu.org
> Date: Thu, 20 Oct 2011 13:22:26 +0200
> 
> Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> writes:
> 
> > No, I don't, because setting TZ=EST or some such in the environment
> > will produce a compliant string.
> 
> It does not match [+-]NNNN.

But the output of %Z or current-time-zone isn't supposed to.  E.g., on
fencepost.gnu.org, I get "EDT".  It's %z that produces [-+]NNNN.

To step back a notch, the original issue was that current-time-zone
can produce strings that are not RFC822 compliant, even on a Posix
system, if the luser sets TZ to some arbitrary string.  Paul says that
any software that uses the output of current-time-zone should be able
to detect this non-compliance and use %z instead.  I'm asking how to
do that.

With a previous "work-around" on Windows, the test was easy: the
output was a blank string, which is definitely not RFC822 compliant.
If we remove that work-around, we can get something like "Pacific
Daylight Time" instead, which is invalid according to RFC822.  I'm
asking how to detect such "invalid" zone names.





  reply	other threads:[~2011-10-20 12:58 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
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 [this message]
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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