From: Giorgos Keramidas <keramida@ceid.upatras.gr>
To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: problem with time-stamps on GNU/Linux and Windows
Date: Fri, 05 Sep 2008 03:38:12 +0300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <874p4vig0b.fsf@kobe.laptop> (raw)
In-Reply-To: mailman.18448.1220552912.18990.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
On Thu, 04 Sep 2008 20:37:26 +0200, Seweryn Kokot <s.kokot@po.opole.pl> wrote:
> Well, (current-time-string) function returns the same strings on both
> systems, but in English, for example: "Thu Sep 4 20:16:51 2008". BTW
> why this function gives abbreviations in English and not the locale's
> ones?
Because this way the output is predictably formatted, and programs can
read it with a well-known, predefined format. The `format-time-string'
function can be used for locale-aware results.
> Whereas this function
>
> (defun my-insert-time-stamp ()
> (interactive)
> (insert (format-time-string "%a %b %d %02H:%02M:%02S %Y")))
>
> on Windows gives
> (my-insert-time-stamp)
> Cz wrz 04 20:13:20 2008
>
> and on GNU/Linux:
> czw wrz 04 20:16:29 2008
>
> I raise this problem because org-mode has some problems parsing these
> inconsistent abbreviations.
>
> Is it possible to get the result of (my-insert-time-stamp) in English
> like in the case of the (current-time-string) function?
One way to get predictable timestamps in `my-insert-time-stamp' is to
temporarily alter the value of `system-time-locale':
(defun my-insert-time-stamp ()
(interactive)
(insert (let ((system-time-locale "C"))
(format-time-string "%a %b %d %02H:%02M:%02S %Y"))))
This will always use the "C" locale when displaying time, and the output
inserted by `my-insert-time-stamp' will be similar to:
"Fri Sep 05 03:34:47 2008"
To make the timestamps inserted independent of the local timezone, it
may also be worth to call `format-time-string' with a third argument of
`T' to output the timestamp in UTC:
(defun my-insert-time-stamp ()
(interactive)
(insert (let ((system-time-locale "C"))
(format-time-string "%a %b %d %02H:%02M:%02S %Y" (current-time) t))))
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Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
[not found] <mailman.18400.1220525633.18990.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2008-09-04 13:00 ` problem with time-stamps on GNU/Linux and Windows Jason Rumney
2008-09-04 17:27 ` ken
2008-09-04 17:43 ` Eli Zaretskii
2008-09-04 18:37 ` Seweryn Kokot
2008-09-04 19:04 ` ken
2008-09-04 19:55 ` Seweryn Kokot
[not found] ` <mailman.18448.1220552912.18990.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2008-09-05 0:38 ` Giorgos Keramidas [this message]
2008-09-04 18:19 ` Seweryn Kokot
2008-09-04 11:02 Seweryn Kokot
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