From: Ken Brown <kbrown@cornell.edu>
To: Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.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 17:28:58 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <b52d0b30-cabc-650a-d275-f73f690fb724@cornell.edu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <269c5353-d07b-5cf0-4009-3d817351c470@cs.ucla.edu>
On 4/30/2017 4:49 PM, Paul Eggert wrote:
> 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.
It does output "1970-01-01 12:00:00 +1200 (NZST)".
> If so, perhaps we should just skip the
> test on Cygwin (you might file a Cygwin bug report).
Let's not skip it yet. I'll file a Cygwin bug report first.
Thanks.
Ken
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[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
2017-04-30 21:28 ` Ken Brown [this message]
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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