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: Fri, 08 Aug 2008 20:22:30 +0300 Message-ID: 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> <86ljz7eefb.fsf@lifelogs.com> <002601c8f96f$6c224350$0200a8c0@us.oracle.com> Reply-To: Eli Zaretskii , 641@emacsbugs.donarmstrong.com NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1218217756 23454 80.91.229.12 (8 Aug 2008 17:49:16 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 8 Aug 2008 17:49:16 +0000 (UTC) Cc: tzz@lifelogs.com, bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org To: Drew Adams Original-X-From: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri Aug 08 19:50:06 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 1KRW4z-0002lg-1y for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; 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Fri, 08 Aug 2008 13:22:34 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1KRVfc-0007RV-Ju for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 08 Aug 2008 13:22:33 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=41186 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1KRVfc-0007RS-Ha for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 08 Aug 2008 13:22:32 -0400 Original-Received: from mtaout5.012.net.il ([84.95.2.13]:15406) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1KRVfc-0001VL-5g for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 08 Aug 2008 13:22:32 -0400 Original-Received: from HOME-C4E4A596F7 ([84.229.211.50]) by i_mtaout5.012.net.il (HyperSendmail v2004.12) with ESMTPA id <0K5A002DXLLY78A0@i_mtaout5.012.net.il> for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 08 Aug 2008 20:22:47 +0300 (IDT) In-reply-to: <002601c8f96f$6c224350$0200a8c0@us.oracle.com> X-012-Sender: halo1@inter.net.il X-detected-kernel: by monty-python.gnu.org: Solaris 9.1 X-detected-kernel: by monty-python.gnu.org: Linux 2.6 (newer, 3) Resent-Date: Fri, 08 Aug 2008 13:47:34 -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:19149 Archived-At: > From: "Drew Adams" > Date: Fri, 8 Aug 2008 08:57:11 -0700 > Cc: > > IOW, we should give users _both_ possibilities unambiguously: Posix-only and > possibly-non-Posix, better-than-nothing, YMMV, human-readable name. > > We can do that by introducing a new format key, in addition to %Z. I'm okay with having a new format, or with adding a function that would return a time-zone name that is just a string, not the spec codified by Posix. (It could return strings like "Asia/Riyadh" on Posix platforms.)