From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Ted Zlatanov Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.bugs Subject: Re: bug#641: format-time-string %Z does not work, starting with Emacs 22.2 Date: Fri, 08 Aug 2008 10:04:24 -0500 Organization: =?utf-8?B?0KLQtdC+0LTQvtGAINCX0LvQsNGC0LDQvdC+0LI=?= @ Cienfuegos Message-ID: <86ljz7eefb.fsf@lifelogs.com> References: <4897737C.90709@gmx.at> <86fxphgdw1.fsf@lifelogs.com> <489B441F.6070402@gmail.com> <489B5792.80504@gmail.com> <489B5CDC.3050902@gmail.com> <489B634C.1040602@gmail.com> <489B69B3.7000502@gmail.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1218210028 30439 80.91.229.12 (8 Aug 2008 15:40:28 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 8 Aug 2008 15:40:28 +0000 (UTC) To: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri Aug 08 17:41:18 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 1KRU5U-0004gA-JU for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 08 Aug 2008 17:41:08 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:55296 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1KRU4Z-0008QP-0T for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 08 Aug 2008 11:40:11 -0400 Original-Path: news.stanford.edu!newsfeed.stanford.edu!news.tele.dk!news.tele.dk!small.news.tele.dk!newsgate.cistron.nl!xs4all!news2.euro.net!newsfeed.freenet.de!news.albasani.net!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.bug Original-Lines: 30 Original-X-Trace: news.albasani.net Z0wiIcIkc//H2BLgJfIhXQtfoiFiEuhJM0QSP4V+/YWu84RP+S82Qr2i06odoiVzuH2+KMD/6X3QUyiWcWwbCsSLzG8Fz9mKZMeTm1eqziR7ci0YjmBdwgDSlT3HtEah Original-X-Complaints-To: abuse@albasani.net Original-NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 8 Aug 2008 14:59:34 +0000 (UTC) X-User-ID: 6acnLu6txApkPSiTUVzogezw8J2+6d50VUsS4tu3QyA= X-Face: bd.DQ~'29fIs`T_%O%C\g%6jW)yi[zuz6; d4V0`@y-~$#3P_Ng{@m+e4o<4P'#(_GJQ%TT= D}[Ep*b!\e,fBZ'j_+#"Ps?s2!4H2-Y"sx" Cancel-Lock: sha1:VdzQdFuITWPdcht9UnV8wkfzwys= sha1:DMTrmFoEpcv8wkro/KylexJkzoo= User-Agent: Gnus/5.110011 (No Gnus v0.11) Emacs/23.0.60 (gnu/linux) X-NNTP-Posting-Host: N55SJJttupFi/7hctG2IMV7y6ROz2qhGEGutMnpQj64= Original-Xref: news.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.bug:46202 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:19143 Archived-At: On Fri, 08 Aug 2008 10:10:10 +0300 Eli Zaretskii wrote: >> Date: Thu, 07 Aug 2008 23:31:31 +0200 >> From: "Lennart Borgman (gmail)" >> CC: 641@emacsbugs.donarmstrong.com, Eli Zaretskii , >> tzz@lifelogs.com, bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org >> >> To make it clear what I am asking for: Isn't there an official list that >> we could map to, using those variables that are needed? EZ> We need a list that shows the time zone names in all languages each EZ> time zone can be translated to by Windows due to locale definitions. EZ> If someone knows where to find such a list, please tell. EZ> I'm not aware of such a list, FWIW. Closest I could find is this chart: http://unicode.org/cldr/data/diff/supplemental/windows_tzid.html 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. 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. But this is a lot of work. Ted