From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
To: Help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: problem with time-stamps on GNU/Linux and Windows
Date: Thu, 04 Sep 2008 20:43:55 +0300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <uhc8vkdr8.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <48C01A64.9060705@mousecar.com>
> Date: Thu, 04 Sep 2008 13:27:00 -0400
> From: ken <gebser@mousecar.com>
> Cc: Help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
>
> >> 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.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-09-04 17:43 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 [this message]
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
2008-09-04 11:02 Seweryn Kokot
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