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 20:19:20 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87ljy7pydz.fsf@poczta.po.opole.pl> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 48C01A64.9060705@mousecar.com
ken <gebser@mousecar.com> writes:
> On 09/04/2008 09:00 AM Jason Rumney wrote:
>> On Sep 4, 7:02 pm, Seweryn Kokot <s.ko...@po.opole.pl> wrote:
>>> Hello,
>>>
>>> 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. But I'm guessing that the problem isn't the accuracy of
> the time, but rather the human-readable output derived from those words.
>
> I trust that you've read and understand the help on
> "format-time-string"... i.e.,
>
> C-h f format-time-string [Return]
I had read it before. I referred to %a from this help buffer. And the
problem is with the abbreviated name of the day of week. Under Linux I
get three-letter abbreviations (e.g. "wto" - "Tue") and under Windows -
two-letter abbrev (e.g. "Wt").
What I want is the three-letter abbreviation.
regards,
Seweryn
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-09-04 18:19 UTC|newest]
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
2008-09-04 18:19 ` Seweryn Kokot [this message]
2008-09-04 11:02 Seweryn Kokot
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