From: James Cloos <cloos@jhcloos.com>
To: Jason Rumney <jasonr@f2s.com>
Cc: 14@emacsbugs.donarmstrong.com,
"emacs-pretest-bug@gnu.org" <emacs-pretest-bug@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: TZ ignored by (display-time)
Date: Fri, 14 Mar 2008 17:26:32 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <m37ig59eu8.fsf@lugabout.jhcloos.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <47DAB165.9090300@f2s.com> (Jason Rumney's message of "Fri, 14 Mar 2008 17:09:57 +0000")
>>>>> "Jason" == Jason Rumney <jasonr@f2s.com> writes:
JimC> (display-time) fails to take the contents of TZ into effect when
JimC> formatting the time string.
Jason> The problem seems to be caused by the new display-time-world
Jason> functionality, so this bug shouldn't affect Emacs 22.
Jason> According to the documentation for set-time-zone-rule, it should
Jason> set the timezone back to the local timezone when the argument is
Jason> nil. But it doesn't seem to take note of the TZ environment
Jason> variable when it does this.
Cool. Thanks for tracking it down.
Running (set-time-zone-rule (getenv "TZ")) does indeed cause
the (display-time) output to match the timezone specified by TZ.
I looked at the set-time-zone-rule DEFUN as well as set_time_zone_rule()
in src/editfns.c but am not sure how best to fix this....
-JimC
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-03-14 21:26 UTC|newest]
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2008-03-14 17:09 TZ ignored by (display-time) Jason Rumney
2008-03-14 21:26 ` James Cloos [this message]
2008-03-14 23:54 ` Jason Rumney
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