Time zone abbreviation

Time zone abbreviation

[George Georgiou]

On my unix machine Emacs 21.2 evaluates this

(format-time-string "%Z")

to "PST"

whereas on emacsnt 21.3 on Windows XP is evaluated to
"Pacific Standard Time".

How can make "Pacific Standard Time" "PST"?

Thanks.




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Re: Time zone abbreviation

[Eli Zaretskii]

> Date: Tue, 6 Jan 2004 19:28:06 -0800 (PST)
> From: George Georgiou <geortal@yahoo.com>
> Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help
> 
> On my unix machine Emacs 21.2 evaluates this
> 
> (format-time-string "%Z")
> 
> to "PST"
> 
> whereas on emacsnt 21.3 on Windows XP is evaluated to
> "Pacific Standard Time".
> 
> How can make "Pacific Standard Time" "PST"?

I'm guessing that the string comes from the system library, so you
cannot change it.  (The C standard says that %Z produces the time-zone
name or its abbreviation, so the M$ runtime seems to comply here.)
You could, of course, make an alist that maps one into the other.

Why do you need "PST", anyway?  Isn't the numerical offset value
(produced by %z) better?