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From: "Drew Adams" <drew.adams@oracle.com>
To: "'Kazu Yamamoto \(\"????\"\)'" <kazu@iij.ad.jp>,
	<emacs-devel@gnu.org>, <help-emacs-windows@gnu.org>
Subject: RE: format-time-string (was Emacs 22.2.92 pretest)
Date: Tue, 2 Sep 2008 20:30:50 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <002701c90d75$76da4300$0200a8c0@us.oracle.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20080903.120436.213798921.kazu@iij.ad.jp>

> First of all, thank you for releaseing Emacs 22.2.92 pretest
> and preparing Windows binary!
> 
> Unfortunately, Emacs on Windows (not including UNIX and Mac) have a
> bug on format-time-string. (format-time-string "%Z") does not return
> anything.
> 
> (let ((system-time-locale "C"))
>   (format-time-string "%Z"))
> -> ""
> 
> In Japanese environment, this should return "JST".
> 
> Some mailreaders on Emacs use this function to produce the Date:
> field. (See the header of this message.) So, this bug has a big
> impact.
> 
> I hope this bug will be fixed before Emacs 22.3 will be released.

This has been reported:

http://emacsbugs.donarmstrong.com/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=641

Unfortunately, it was relegated to the wish list.





  reply	other threads:[~2008-09-03  3:30 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-09-02 22:51 Emacs 22.2.92 pretest Chong Yidong
2008-09-03  2:11 ` Jason Rumney
2008-09-03  3:04   ` format-time-string (was Emacs 22.2.92 pretest) Kazu Yamamoto
2008-09-03  3:30     ` Drew Adams [this message]
2008-09-03  4:25       ` format-time-string Kazu Yamamoto
2008-09-03  4:05     ` format-time-string (was Emacs 22.2.92 pretest) Jason Rumney
2008-09-03  4:21       ` format-time-string Kazu Yamamoto
2008-09-03  7:51         ` format-time-string Jason Rumney
2008-09-04  3:02           ` format-time-string Kazu Yamamoto

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