From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Eli Zaretskii Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.bugs Subject: bug#641: format-time-string %Z does not work, starting with Emacs 22.2 Date: Thu, 07 Aug 2008 21:59:53 +0300 Message-ID: References: <4897737C.90709@gmx.at> <001501c8f67e$7c63b300$0200a8c0@us.oracle.com> <008601c8f756$9bce0f00$0200a8c0@us.oracle.com> <00a001c8f786$fa665d30$0200a8c0@us.oracle.com> <86skthj4yf.fsf@lifelogs.com> <86fxphgdw1.fsf@lifelogs.com> <489B441F.6070402@gmail.com> Reply-To: Eli Zaretskii , 641@emacsbugs.donarmstrong.com NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1218137352 26419 80.91.229.12 (7 Aug 2008 19:29:12 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 7 Aug 2008 19:29:12 +0000 (UTC) Cc: tzz@lifelogs.com, bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org To: "Lennart Borgman (gmail)" Original-X-From: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Aug 07 21:30:02 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 1KRBBJ-0005jk-G1 for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 07 Aug 2008 21:29:53 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:58408 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1KRBAN-0005WT-W9 for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 07 Aug 2008 15:28:56 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1KRB94-0004e6-Fz for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 07 Aug 2008 15:27:34 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1KRB91-0004bA-Ui for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 07 Aug 2008 15:27:33 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=33708 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1KRB91-0004ax-5d for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 07 Aug 2008 15:27:31 -0400 Original-Received: from rzlab.ucr.edu ([138.23.92.77]:53606) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:DHE_RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1KRB91-0002RJ-3q for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 07 Aug 2008 15:27:31 -0400 Original-Received: from rzlab.ucr.edu (rzlab.ucr.edu [127.0.0.1]) by rzlab.ucr.edu (8.13.8/8.13.8/Debian-3) with ESMTP id m77JRNIE026235; Thu, 7 Aug 2008 12:27:23 -0700 Original-Received: (from debbugs@localhost) by rzlab.ucr.edu (8.13.8/8.13.8/Submit) id m77JA4UH020637; Thu, 7 Aug 2008 12:10:04 -0700 X-Loop: don@donarmstrong.com Resent-From: Eli Zaretskii Resent-To: bug-submit-list@donarmstrong.com Resent-CC: Emacs Bugs , don@donarmstrong.com Resent-Date: Thu, 07 Aug 2008 19:10:04 +0000 Resent-Message-ID: Resent-Sender: don@donarmstrong.com X-Emacs-PR-Message: report 641 X-Emacs-PR-Package: emacs,w32 X-Emacs-PR-Keywords: Original-Received: via spool by submit@emacsbugs.donarmstrong.com id=B.121813564918009 (code B ref -1); Thu, 07 Aug 2008 19:10:04 +0000 Original-Received: (at submit) by emacsbugs.donarmstrong.com; 7 Aug 2008 19:00:49 +0000 Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org (lists.gnu.org [199.232.76.165]) by rzlab.ucr.edu (8.13.8/8.13.8/Debian-3) with ESMTP id m77J0ktB018003 for ; Thu, 7 Aug 2008 12:00:47 -0700 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1KRAj8-00006J-77 for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 07 Aug 2008 15:00:46 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1KRAj7-00005E-Eo for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 07 Aug 2008 15:00:45 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=46634 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1KRAj7-000052-AW for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 07 Aug 2008 15:00:45 -0400 Original-Received: from mtaout6.012.net.il ([84.95.2.16]:53530) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1KRAj7-0007T0-5X for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 07 Aug 2008 15:00:45 -0400 Original-Received: from HOME-C4E4A596F7 ([77.126.62.79]) by i-mtaout6.012.net.il (HyperSendmail v2007.08) with ESMTPA id <0K58009T9VG8ZGP0@i-mtaout6.012.net.il> for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 07 Aug 2008 22:00:09 +0300 (IDT) In-reply-to: <489B441F.6070402@gmail.com> X-012-Sender: halo1@inter.net.il X-detected-kernel: by monty-python.gnu.org: Solaris 10 (1203?) X-detected-kernel: by monty-python.gnu.org: Linux 2.6 (newer, 3) Resent-Date: Thu, 07 Aug 2008 15:27:33 -0400 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:19112 Archived-At: > Date: Thu, 07 Aug 2008 20:51:11 +0200 > From: "Lennart Borgman (gmail)" > CC: Ted Zlatanov , bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org > > Eli Zaretskii wrote: > >> From: Ted Zlatanov > >> Date: Thu, 07 Aug 2008 08:20:46 -0500 > >> > >> We could build a database of known Microsoft timezones and map them to > >> ISO timezones. It has to be done just once and then updated very > >> rarely--timezone names don't change often. The full list of timezones > >> is in > >> > >> HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\Time Zones > > > > I already mentioned this possibility in an earlier message here. The > > problem is that what you actually see in `tzname' could be a localized > > name, not the US English name. So unless someone finds (or crafts) an > > exhaustive list of all TZ names both in English and in any localized > > language to which each one could be translated by Windows, this will > > work only on some machines. > > > How many time zones are there? I see 87 on my machine.