From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: "Robert J. Chassell" Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: make standard If-Modified-Since headers Date: Thu, 28 Feb 2008 02:16:02 +0000 (UTC) Message-ID: References: <86pruy3q6p.fsf@lifelogs.com> <873arfl1ui.fsf_-_@jidanni.org> <867igqtp1g.fsf@lifelogs.com> <87ejayjuf8.fsf@ambire.localdomain> <863aretkoj.fsf@lifelogs.com> <86y796s33o.fsf@lifelogs.com> <47C5E307.6070200@gnu.org> Reply-To: bob@rattlesnake.com NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1204164977 8279 80.91.229.12 (28 Feb 2008 02:16:17 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 28 Feb 2008 02:16:17 +0000 (UTC) To: emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Feb 28 03:16:43 2008 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1JUYK9-00059z-4h for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 28 Feb 2008 03:16:41 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1JUYJc-0000Eo-Si for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 27 Feb 2008 21:16:08 -0500 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1JUYJZ-0000Eh-9f for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 27 Feb 2008 21:16:05 -0500 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1JUYJY-0000ER-SI for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 27 Feb 2008 21:16:05 -0500 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1JUYJY-0000EO-Mq for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 27 Feb 2008 21:16:04 -0500 Original-Received: from cpe-69-204-130-115.nycap.res.rr.com ([69.204.130.115] helo=rattlesnake.com) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1JUYJY-0000KF-I7 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 27 Feb 2008 21:16:04 -0500 Original-Received: by rattlesnake.com via sendmail from stdin id (Debian Smail3.2.0.115) Thu, 28 Feb 2008 02:16:02 +0000 (UTC) In-reply-to: <47C5E307.6070200@gnu.org> (message from Jason Rumney on Wed, 27 Feb 2008 22:24:07 +0000) X-detected-kernel: by monty-python.gnu.org: Linux 2.6 (newer, 1) X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:90684 Archived-At: %Z seems to give an empty string here (Windows XP), but that is probably a bug. It is a bug. On my Debian GNU/Linux system, %Z has for years matched its documentation %Z is the time zone name Using %Z is safer than using UTC or an equivalent since some computers are configured to provide Central European Time, others Pacific Standard Time, and so on. For me, the current date and time (from a function I keep in my .emacs file): Thu, 2008 Feb 28 01:58 UTC (GMT went away in the 1970s; I remember it from my youth. There are a variety of ephemeric and atomic clock times. UTC is the French abbreviation for Universal Coordinated Time which is used in making time zones around the planet, for weather reports, and that sort of thing. It is also known as `Zulu time' so you will see an abbreviation such as 00Z in a weather discussion, meaning 7pm EST or 8pm EDT.) -- Robert J. Chassell GnuPG Key ID: 004B4AC8 bob@rattlesnake.com bob@gnu.org http://www.rattlesnake.com http://www.teak.cc