From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: storm@cua.dk (Kim F. Storm) Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Emacs Lisp date/time functions and RFC 3339? Date: Fri, 10 Nov 2006 11:55:34 +0100 Message-ID: References: <17746.41387.298537.794187@gargle.gargle.HOWL> NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1163157256 671 80.91.229.2 (10 Nov 2006 11:14:16 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 10 Nov 2006 11:14:16 +0000 (UTC) Cc: raman@users.sf.net, emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri Nov 10 12:14:14 2006 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1GiUKn-000875-0d for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 10 Nov 2006 12:14:09 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1GiUKm-000820-CM for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 10 Nov 2006 06:14:08 -0500 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1GiUKY-0007yH-Qq for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 10 Nov 2006 06:13:54 -0500 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1GiUKT-0007nB-3K for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 10 Nov 2006 06:13:52 -0500 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1GiUKS-0007mx-Qk for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 10 Nov 2006 06:13:48 -0500 Original-Received: from [193.162.153.9] (helo=pqueuea.post.tele.dk) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.52) id 1GiUKS-0002He-EK for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 10 Nov 2006 06:13:48 -0500 Original-Received: from pfepa.post.tele.dk (pfepa.post.tele.dk [195.41.46.235]) by pqueuea.post.tele.dk (Postfix) with ESMTP id C270DDC062 for ; Fri, 10 Nov 2006 11:56:22 +0100 (CET) Original-Received: from kfs-l.imdomain.dk.cua.dk (unknown [80.165.4.124]) by pfepa.post.tele.dk (Postfix) with SMTP id EFE7EFAC050; Fri, 10 Nov 2006 11:56:00 +0100 (CET) Original-To: Andreas Schwab In-Reply-To: (Andreas Schwab's message of "Fri\, 10 Nov 2006 11\:15\:29 +0100") User-Agent: Gnus/5.11 (Gnus v5.11) Emacs/22.0.90 (gnu/linux) 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:62025 Archived-At: Andreas Schwab writes: > "T. V. Raman" writes: > >> The date/time handling functions in Emacs --- >> calendar/time-date.el, together with the primitives for >> encode-time and decode-time do not handle this format well, nor >> does format-time-string. > > In which way does format-time-string not handle that format? E.g. %z => -0800 whereas the rfc requests -08:00 Also for UTC, %z => 0000 whereas the rfc requests Z Also, we need a function which parses this date/time format. -- Kim F. Storm http://www.cua.dk