From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: "Drew Adams" Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.windows,gmane.emacs.devel Subject: RE: format-time-string (was Emacs 22.2.92 pretest) Date: Tue, 2 Sep 2008 20:30:50 -0700 Message-ID: <002701c90d75$76da4300$0200a8c0@us.oracle.com> References: <871w029n5c.fsf@cyd.mit.edu><48BDF251.90405@gnu.org> <20080903.120436.213798921.kazu@iij.ad.jp> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1220412688 7473 80.91.229.12 (3 Sep 2008 03:31:28 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 3 Sep 2008 03:31:28 +0000 (UTC) To: "'Kazu Yamamoto \(\"????\"\)'" , , Original-X-From: help-emacs-windows-bounces+gnu-help-emacs-windows=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Sep 03 05:32:22 2008 Return-path: Envelope-to: gnu-help-emacs-windows@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1Kaj6K-0001to-4T for gnu-help-emacs-windows@m.gmane.org; Wed, 03 Sep 2008 05:32:12 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:58424 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Kaj5K-0003Gg-NQ for gnu-help-emacs-windows@m.gmane.org; Tue, 02 Sep 2008 23:31:10 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1Kaj4q-0003GH-6h for help-emacs-windows@gnu.org; Tue, 02 Sep 2008 23:30:40 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1Kaj4o-0003Fs-NO for help-emacs-windows@gnu.org; Tue, 02 Sep 2008 23:30:39 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=42022 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Kaj4o-0003Fp-Id; Tue, 02 Sep 2008 23:30:38 -0400 Original-Received: from rgminet01.oracle.com ([148.87.113.118]:14071) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:DHE_RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1Kaj4o-00005H-Ab; Tue, 02 Sep 2008 23:30:38 -0400 Original-Received: from rgmgw2.us.oracle.com (rgmgw2.us.oracle.com [138.1.186.111]) by rgminet01.oracle.com (Switch-3.2.4/Switch-3.1.6) with ESMTP id m833UZdF016984; Tue, 2 Sep 2008 21:30:35 -0600 Original-Received: from acsmt703.oracle.com (acsmt703.oracle.com [141.146.40.81]) by rgmgw2.us.oracle.com (Switch-3.2.4/Switch-3.2.4) with ESMTP id m833UXnU008214; Tue, 2 Sep 2008 21:30:34 -0600 Original-Received: from dradamslap1 (/141.144.80.220) by default (Oracle Beehive Gateway v4.0) with ESMTP ; Tue, 02 Sep 2008 20:30:33 -0700 X-Mailer: Microsoft Office Outlook 11 In-Reply-To: <20080903.120436.213798921.kazu@iij.ad.jp> X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2900.3350 Thread-Index: AckNdEV9YSDa+jpCSi2xOKOi7vChkAAAOUCQ X-Brightmail-Tracker: AAAAAQAAAAI= X-Brightmail-Tracker: AAAAAQAAAAI= X-Whitelist: TRUE X-Whitelist: TRUE X-detected-kernel: by monty-python.gnu.org: Linux 2.4-2.6 X-BeenThere: help-emacs-windows@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Discussion forum for users of the GNU Emacs port to Windows List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: help-emacs-windows-bounces+gnu-help-emacs-windows=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: help-emacs-windows-bounces+gnu-help-emacs-windows=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.windows:4035 gmane.emacs.devel:103479 Archived-At: > 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.