From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: "Drew Adams" Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.bugs Subject: bug#641: format-time-string %Z does not work, starting with Emacs 22.2 Date: Thu, 7 Aug 2008 14:47:50 -0700 Message-ID: <003301c8f8d7$3d42bc60$c2b22382@us.oracle.com> References: <4897737C.90709@gmx.at> <86skthj4yf.fsf@lifelogs.com><86fxphgdw1.fsf@lifelogs.com> <489B441F.6070402@gmail.com> <489B5792.80504@gmail.com> <489B5CDC.3050902@gmail.com> Reply-To: Drew Adams , 641@emacsbugs.donarmstrong.com NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1218146925 28456 80.91.229.12 (7 Aug 2008 22:08:45 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 7 Aug 2008 22:08:45 +0000 (UTC) Cc: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org, tzz@lifelogs.com To: "'Juanma Barranquero'" , <641@emacsbugs.donarmstrong.com>, "'Lennart Borgman \(gmail\)'" Original-X-From: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri Aug 08 00:09:34 2008 Return-path: Envelope-to: geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1KRDfp-0005jY-Og for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; 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Thu, 7 Aug 2008 15:48:56 -0600 Original-Received: from inet-141-146-46-1.oracle.com by acsmt355.oracle.com with ESMTP id 11307549451218145665; Thu, 07 Aug 2008 14:47:45 -0700 Original-Received: from dradamslap1 (/130.35.178.194) by default (Oracle Beehive Gateway v4.0) with ESMTP ; Thu, 07 Aug 2008 14:47:45 -0700 X-Mailer: Microsoft Office Outlook 11 In-Reply-To: Thread-Index: Acj40e7mZ1LPz8qtRWCe/09m4A+gDQABNoqg X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2900.3198 X-Brightmail-Tracker: AAAAAQAAAAI= X-Brightmail-Tracker: AAAAAQAAAAI= X-Whitelist: TRUE X-Whitelist: TRUE X-detected-kernel: by monty-python.gnu.org: Linux 2.4-2.6 X-detected-kernel: by monty-python.gnu.org: Linux 2.6 (newer, 3) Resent-Date: Thu, 07 Aug 2008 18:07:34 -0400 X-BeenThere: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors" List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.bugs:19126 Archived-At: > > I would expect there to be just a little bit more than 24 > > possible different return values from "%z". It would be 24 > > if all zones where whole hours different from UTC (or what > > it is called now). But since some zones uses > > half hours it could be more. > > > > However 87 is a surprisingly high figure for me. > > You're assuming too much. Countries in the same apparent time zone do > not have to follow the same DST rules, for example. Not just different DST rules, and not just language differences. Different countries with regions in the same UTC offset can have different names for the same zone: Cuba Summer Time and Chile Time are both UTC -04, for example.