From: Jason Rumney <jasonr@gnu.org>
To: "\"Kazu Yamamoto (山本和彦)\"" <kazu@iij.ad.jp>
Cc: help-emacs-windows@gnu.org, emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: format-time-string (was Emacs 22.2.92 pretest)
Date: Wed, 03 Sep 2008 12:05:20 +0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <48BE0D00.9060909@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20080903.120436.213798921.kazu@iij.ad.jp>
> In Japanese environment, this should return "JST".
>
On Windows, that has never been the case unless you explicitly set the
TZ environment variable to JST.
> Some mailreaders on Emacs use this function to produce the Date:
> field.
Those mailreaders already have a bug if they do that. RFC 822 only
allowed a small subset of timezone abbreviations (US timezones and GMT,
plus single character Milatary designations that I've never seen in real
use), and its successor RFC 2822 makes even these obsolete, requiring
numeric timezone specifiers in all cases.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-09-03 4:05 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
2008-09-03 4:25 ` format-time-string Kazu Yamamoto
2008-09-03 4:05 ` Jason Rumney [this message]
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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