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From: "Drew Adams" <drew.adams@oracle.com>
To: "'Eli Zaretskii'" <eliz@gnu.org>
Cc: tzz@lifelogs.com, bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: bug#641: format-time-string %Z does not work, starting with Emacs 22.2
Date: Fri, 8 Aug 2008 10:27:26 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <003301c8f97c$074e6be0$0200a8c0@us.oracle.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <uk5erifqh.fsf@gnu.org>

> > IOW, we should give users _both_ possibilities 
> > unambiguously: Posix-only and possibly-non-Posix,
> > better-than-nothing, YMMV, human-readable name.
> > 
> > We can do that by introducing a new format key, in addition to %Z.
> 
> I'm okay with having a new format, or with adding a function that
> would return a time-zone name that is just a string, not the spec
> codified by Posix.  (It could return strings like "Asia/Riyadh" on
> Posix platforms.)

Great. Thanks. Either solution is fine by me.

Probably a new format is better for users (keep everything in one place), if
there are no other considerations.








  reply	other threads:[~2008-08-08 17:27 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 46+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-08-04 21:24 bug#641: format-time-string %Z does not work, starting with Emacs 22.2 martin rudalics
2008-08-04 22:07 ` Drew Adams
2008-08-05  6:28   ` martin rudalics
2008-08-05 18:34   ` Eli Zaretskii
2008-08-05 23:54     ` Drew Adams
2008-08-06  3:22       ` Eli Zaretskii
2008-08-06  5:40         ` Drew Adams
2008-08-06 18:53           ` Eli Zaretskii
2008-08-06 19:48             ` Drew Adams
2008-08-06 20:34               ` Juanma Barranquero
2008-08-06 23:05                 ` Drew Adams
2008-08-07  3:16                   ` Juanma Barranquero
     [not found]           ` <mailman.15951.1218049658.18990.bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2008-08-06 19:53             ` Ted Zlatanov
2008-08-06 21:20               ` Eli Zaretskii
2008-08-06 21:35               ` Juanma Barranquero
     [not found]               ` <mailman.15962.1218059257.18990.bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2008-08-07 13:20                 ` Ted Zlatanov
2008-08-07 18:20                   ` Eli Zaretskii
2008-08-07 18:51                     ` Lennart Borgman (gmail)
2008-08-07 18:59                       ` Eli Zaretskii
2008-08-07 20:14                         ` Lennart Borgman (gmail)
2008-08-07 20:29                           ` Eli Zaretskii
2008-08-07 20:36                             ` Lennart Borgman (gmail)
2008-08-07 20:58                               ` Juanma Barranquero
2008-08-07 21:04                                 ` Lennart Borgman (gmail)
2008-08-07 21:13                                   ` Juanma Barranquero
2008-08-07 21:31                                     ` Lennart Borgman (gmail)
2008-08-08  7:10                                       ` Eli Zaretskii
     [not found]                                       ` <mailman.16075.1218180793.18990.bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2008-08-08 15:04                                         ` Ted Zlatanov
2008-08-08 15:57                                           ` Drew Adams
2008-08-08 17:22                                             ` Eli Zaretskii
2008-08-08 17:27                                               ` Drew Adams [this message]
2008-08-09  1:00                                                 ` ＯＦＦＩＣＥ　ZERO
2008-08-09 14:13                                                 ` ＯＦＦＩＣＥ　ZERO
2008-08-08 18:46                                               ` Stefan Monnier
2008-08-09  0:59                                               ` ＯＦＦＩＣＥ　ZERO
2008-08-08 18:47                                             ` Andreas Schwab
2008-08-09  1:01                                               ` ＯＦＦＩＣＥ　ZERO
2008-08-09 14:13                                               ` ＯＦＦＩＣＥ　ZERO
2008-08-09  1:01                                             ` ＯＦＦＩＣＥ　ZERO
2008-08-08 17:16                                           ` Eli Zaretskii
2008-08-09 14:12                                             ` ＯＦＦＩＣＥ　ZERO
2008-08-08  7:21                                   ` Eli Zaretskii
2008-08-07 21:47                                 ` Drew Adams
2008-08-07 21:20                         ` martin rudalics
2008-08-08  7:17                           ` Eli Zaretskii
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2008-08-01 16:45 Drew Adams

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