From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Ken Brown Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: [Emacs-diffs] master 085c7f6 2/2: Test format-time-string with zone arg Date: Sun, 30 Apr 2017 16:41:30 -0400 Message-ID: <07e00044-4ce1-bba8-2fe5-4e7eb7fb27a6@cornell.edu> References: <20170427222412.28742.14016@vcs0.savannah.gnu.org> <20170427222413.8FBA722040@vcs0.savannah.gnu.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: blaine.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=windows-1252; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: blaine.gmane.org 1493584945 13783 195.159.176.226 (30 Apr 2017 20:42:25 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@blaine.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 30 Apr 2017 20:42:25 +0000 (UTC) User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; WOW64; rv:45.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/45.8.0 To: emacs-devel@gnu.org, Paul Eggert Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sun Apr 30 22:42:20 2017 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by blaine.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1d4vff-0003T8-6F for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sun, 30 Apr 2017 22:42:19 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:45861 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1d4vfk-0001vG-QN for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sun, 30 Apr 2017 16:42:24 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:37025) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1d4vf8-0001uz-KJ for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 30 Apr 2017 16:41:47 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1d4vf3-0002kH-Og for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 30 Apr 2017 16:41:46 -0400 Original-Received: from limerock02.mail.cornell.edu ([128.84.13.242]:34345) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1d4vf3-0002jy-Jz for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 30 Apr 2017 16:41:41 -0400 X-CornellRouted: This message has been Routed already. Original-Received: from authusersmtp.mail.cornell.edu (granite3.serverfarm.cornell.edu [10.16.197.8]) by limerock02.mail.cornell.edu (8.14.4/8.14.4_cu) with ESMTP id v3UKfV1x006373; Sun, 30 Apr 2017 16:41:31 -0400 Original-Received: from [192.168.1.6] (mta-68-175-148-36.twcny.rr.com [68.175.148.36] (may be forged)) (authenticated bits=0) by authusersmtp.mail.cornell.edu (8.14.4/8.12.10) with ESMTP id v3UKfTd5007486 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES128-SHA bits=128 verify=NOT); Sun, 30 Apr 2017 16:41:30 -0400 In-Reply-To: <20170427222413.8FBA722040@vcs0.savannah.gnu.org> X-PMX-Cornell-Gauge: Gauge=XXXXX X-PMX-CORNELL-AUTH-RESULTS: dkim-out=none; X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6.x [fuzzy] X-Received-From: 128.84.13.242 X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.21 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "Emacs-devel" Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:214453 Archived-At: On 4/27/2017 6:24 PM, Paul Eggert wrote: > branch: master > commit 085c7f608657d2aa19a6b2b0fe29d3deaa8eb6ff > + (should (string-equal > + (format-time-string "%Y-%m-%d %H:%M:%S %z (%Z)" '(0 0 0 0) > + "NZST-12NZDT,M9.5.0,M4.1.0/3") > + "1970-01-01 13:00:00 +1300 (NZDT)"))) This test fails on Cygwin. (format-time-string "%Y-%m-%d %H:%M:%S %z (%Z)" '(0 0 0 0) "NZST-12NZDT,M9.5.0,M4.1.0/3") evaluates to "1970-01-01 12:00:00 +1200 (NZST)". Can you give me some guidance as to how to track this down? I know nothing about how time zones work. Ken