From: "Drew Adams" <drew.adams@oracle.com>
To: "'Eli Zaretskii'" <eliz@gnu.org>
Cc: 9794@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#9794: 24.0.90; `format-time-string' no good for %Z
Date: Wed, 19 Oct 2011 07:29:48 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <F1B22A95C47D44918D29D9BD3B1D3D90@us.oracle.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <8362jlv0rq.fsf@gnu.org>
> > 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.
>
> No, it's because a _Windows_ developer found out that the Windows
> time-zone names violate international standards for what %Z should
> produce, which breaks other Emacs features that use the results.
No. There is nothing to prevent Emacs from DTRT and providing _both_ the
Windows time-zone info and POSIX-standard info, using separate formatting codes.
Read the #641 thread.
Nothing in the GNU charter/mission/philosophy requires Emacs to _limit_ itself
to POSIX compliance. Providing a POSIX-compliant time-zone formatting code is
one thing - a good thing, no doubt. Not providing other available, non-POSIX
time-zone information that can be useful to users is another thing - a sorry
mistake.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2011-10-19 14:29 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
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 [this message]
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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