From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Jason Rumney <jasonr@btinternet.co> Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.bugs Subject: Re: 21.1: calendar: daylight saving time wrong Date: Mon, 25 Mar 2002 20:22:34 +0000 (UTC) Organization: BT Openworld Sender: bug-gnu-emacs-admin@gnu.org Message-ID: <m3zo0wiej0.fsf@nyaumo.btinternet.com> References: <3C9AE7F1.16003.13F5ED@localhost> <3C9ED9EF.29544.8136D@localhost> NNTP-Posting-Host: localhost.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1017087862 10996 127.0.0.1 (25 Mar 2002 20:24:22 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 25 Mar 2002 20:24:22 +0000 (UTC) Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([199.232.76.164]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.33 #1 (Debian)) id 16pb0v-0002rF-00 for <gnu-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org>; Mon, 25 Mar 2002 21:24:21 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=fencepost.gnu.org) by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 3.34 #1 (Debian)) id 16pb0t-0004WT-00; Mon, 25 Mar 2002 15:24:19 -0500 Original-Received: from rutgers.edu ([165.230.4.76] helo=rutgers.rutgers.edu) by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 3.34 #1 (Debian)) id 16pazj-0004TN-00 for <bug-gnu-emacs@prep.ai.mit.edu>; Mon, 25 Mar 2002 15:23:07 -0500 Original-Received: from seriphos.btinternet.com ([217.32.252.52]) by rutgers.rutgers.edu (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id PAA16708 for <gnu-emacs-bug@moderators.isc.org>; Mon, 25 Mar 2002 15:23:06 -0500 (EST) Original-Received: from [217.32.254.46] (helo=paris.btinternet.com) by seriphos.btinternet.com with esmtp (Exim 3.22 #1) id 16pazC-0002md-1l for gnu-emacs-bug@moderators.isc.org; Mon, 25 Mar 2002 20:22:34 +0000 Original-Received: from news by paris.btinternet.com with local (Exim 3.22 #1) id 16pazC-0005nI-1M for gnu-emacs-bug@moderators.isc.org; Mon, 25 Mar 2002 20:22:34 +0000 Original-To: gnu-emacs-bug@moderators.isc.org Original-Path: not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.bug Original-Lines: 16 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: host213-1-142-47.btinternet.com Original-X-Trace: paris.btinternet.com 1017087754 15110 213.1.142.47 (25 Mar 2002 20:22:34 GMT) Original-X-Complaints-To: news-complaints@lists.btinternet.com Original-NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 25 Mar 2002 20:22:34 +0000 (UTC) User-Agent: Gnus/5.09 (Gnus v5.9.0) Emacs/21.2 Errors-To: bug-gnu-emacs-admin@gnu.org X-BeenThere: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.0.5 Precedence: bulk List-Help: <mailto:bug-gnu-emacs-request@gnu.org?subject=help> List-Post: <mailto:bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org> List-Subscribe: <http://mail.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-gnu-emacs>, <mailto:bug-gnu-emacs-request@gnu.org?subject=subscribe> List-Id: Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors <bug-gnu-emacs.gnu.org> List-Unsubscribe: <http://mail.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-gnu-emacs>, <mailto:bug-gnu-emacs-request@gnu.org?subject=unsubscribe> List-Archive: <http://mail.gnu.org/pipermail/bug-gnu-emacs/> Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.bugs:165 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.bugs:165 "Ulrich Windl" <Ulrich.Windl@rz.uni-regensburg.de> writes: > > The DST information comes from the operating system, not from within Emacs. > > Yes, however "TZEDIT from the Windows Resource kit says DST switching > will take effect on last sunday in March. >From my previous correspondence with Microsoft about bugs in their C library implementation of timezones, I can tell you that what TZEDIT tells about NT's knowledge of timezones may have no bearing on what the C library does. The implementation of timezones in the OS itself, and in Microsoft's proprietary API for accessing this info seems to be bug free, it is their C library that is buggy. -- Jason Rumney