From: Seweryn Kokot <s.kokot@po.opole.pl>
To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: problem with time-stamps on GNU/Linux and Windows
Date: Thu, 04 Sep 2008 20:37:26 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87hc8vpxjt.fsf@poczta.po.opole.pl> (raw)
In-Reply-To: uhc8vkdr8.fsf@gnu.org
Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> writes:
>> >> Could you explain to me why I get slightly different time-stamps under
>> >> Windows and Linux?
>> >
>> > These localized weekday names come from the system. No amount of
>> > configuration within Emacs will make them the same in Windows as they
>> > are in GNU/Linux.
>>
>> I'm not quite understanding your problem. And I don't often use
>> Windows. But I would think that emacs should fetch the same couple
>> words (i.e., two bytes) representing the time regardless of which OS it
>> is running on.
>
> The problem is not the time, but the abbreviated name of the second
> day of the week ("Tue" in English). These abbreviated names come from
> a call to a library function, which are different on Windows and on
> GNU/Linux, so they return different strings.
>
>> But I'm guessing that the problem isn't the accuracy of
>> the time, but rather the human-readable output derived from those words.
>
> Emacs does not derive the names from those words, it simply returns
> whatever the library functions hand it.
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?
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?
regards,
Seweryn
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Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
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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 [this message]
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
2008-09-04 18:19 ` Seweryn Kokot
2008-09-04 11:02 Seweryn Kokot
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