From: Christian Lynbech <christian@defun.dk>
To: Ulf Jasper <ulf.jasper@web.de>
Cc: discussions <emacs-devel@gnu.org>,
Christian <christian.lynbech@tieto.com>
Subject: Re: Timezone handling problem in icalendar.el/icalendar-import-*
Date: Fri, 18 Dec 2009 23:40:39 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <m2my1frjmg.fsf@defun.dk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <846384ax8n.fsf@web.de> (Ulf Jasper's message of "Fri, 18 Dec 2009 20:38:32 +0100")
>>>>> "Ulf" == Ulf Jasper <ulf.jasper@web.de> writes:
Ulf> Changed timezone names to "STD" and "DST". As I understand these are
Ulf> just names and should consist of alphabetic characters only.
Hm, perhaps.
My understanding is/was that some names are recognized (such as CET for
central europe or PST for pacific standard time). These maps to (the
equivalent of) GMT+1 (for CET). Ie. I thought we had a synctactic requirement
(must start with a letter and be at least three letters long) and a
semantic (must belong to this particular set). If a function such as
mktime() encounters something it cannot parse it wil just assume GMT.
If this is correct, why not just use "GMT" rather than "STD" and "DST"?
-- Christian
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-12-18 22:40 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-12-16 13:39 Timezone handling problem in icalendar.el/icalendar-import-* Christian
2009-12-16 14:18 ` Andreas Schwab
2009-12-16 18:38 ` Christian Lynbech
2009-12-16 20:40 ` Ulf Jasper
2009-12-17 10:09 ` Christian
2009-12-17 20:57 ` Ulf Jasper
2009-12-18 7:47 ` Christian
2009-12-18 19:38 ` Ulf Jasper
2009-12-18 22:40 ` Christian Lynbech [this message]
2009-12-19 12:16 ` Ulf Jasper
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