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From: Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
To: Ken Brown <kbrown@cornell.edu>, emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: [Emacs-diffs] master 085c7f6 2/2: Test format-time-string with zone arg
Date: Sun, 30 Apr 2017 13:49:53 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <269c5353-d07b-5cf0-4009-3d817351c470@cs.ucla.edu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <07e00044-4ce1-bba8-2fe5-4e7eb7fb27a6@cornell.edu>

Ken Brown wrote:
> This test fails on Cygwin.
>
> (format-time-string "%Y-%m-%d %H:%M:%S %z (%Z)" '(0 0 0 0)
>             "NZST-12NZDT,M9.5.0,M4.1.0/3")
>
> evaluates to "1970-01-01 12:00:00 +1200 (NZST)".  Can you give me some guidance
> as to how to track this down?  I know nothing about how time zones work.

What does this shell command do?

TZ='NZST-12NZDT,M9.5.0,M4.1.0/3' date -d@0 +'%Y-%m-%d %H:%M:%S %z (%Z)'

On a working system with GNU 'date', it should output this:

1970-01-01 13:00:00 +1300 (NZDT)

If it outputs "1970-01-01 12:00:00 +1200 (NZST)" on Cygwin, it's a bug in Cygwin 
not in Emacs per se. If so, perhaps we should just skip the test on Cygwin (you 
might file a Cygwin bug report). If not, I'll have some other questions to ask.



  reply	other threads:[~2017-04-30 20:49 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 19+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
     [not found] <20170427222412.28742.14016@vcs0.savannah.gnu.org>
     [not found] ` <20170427222413.8FBA722040@vcs0.savannah.gnu.org>
2017-04-30 20:41   ` [Emacs-diffs] master 085c7f6 2/2: Test format-time-string with zone arg Ken Brown
2017-04-30 20:49     ` Paul Eggert [this message]
2017-04-30 21:28       ` Ken Brown
2017-05-01 15:02         ` Eli Zaretskii
2017-05-01 16:59           ` Ken Brown
2017-05-01  7:43       ` Eli Zaretskii
2017-05-01 17:49         ` Paul Eggert
2017-05-01 19:36           ` Eli Zaretskii
2017-05-01 23:05             ` Paul Eggert
2017-05-02  6:29               ` Eli Zaretskii
2017-05-02  7:52                 ` Paul Eggert
2017-05-02 17:09                   ` Eli Zaretskii
2017-05-02 21:55                     ` Bruno Haible
2017-05-02 22:35                       ` Paul Eggert
2017-05-03 15:49                         ` Eli Zaretskii
2017-05-03 15:33                       ` Eli Zaretskii
2017-05-03 19:33                       ` Davis Herring
2017-05-03 21:12                         ` Billy O'Neal (VC LIBS)
2017-05-04 14:26                           ` Eli Zaretskii

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