From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Jason Rumney Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel,gmane.emacs.pretest.bugs Subject: Re: 23.0.50; on Windows, M-x display-time-world shows the same, incorrect, time for all cities Date: Thu, 18 Oct 2007 00:46:21 +0100 Message-ID: <47169ECD.8090401@gnu.org> References: <878x6165pn.fsf@offby1.atm01.sea.blarg.net> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1192664817 9635 80.91.229.12 (17 Oct 2007 23:46:57 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 17 Oct 2007 23:46:57 +0000 (UTC) Cc: Eric Hanchrow , emacs-pretest-bug@gnu.org, Ivan Kanis To: Eli Zaretskii Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Oct 18 01:46:57 2007 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1IiIbI-0008Ay-IU for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 18 Oct 2007 01:46:56 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1IiIbB-0008DY-5m for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 17 Oct 2007 19:46:49 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1IiIb7-0008CM-G3 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 17 Oct 2007 19:46:45 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1IiIb6-0008AC-5J for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 17 Oct 2007 19:46:45 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1IiIb5-0008A0-Qz for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 17 Oct 2007 19:46:43 -0400 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([140.186.70.10]) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1IiIb5-00012E-Ij for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 17 Oct 2007 19:46:43 -0400 Original-Received: from mail.gnu.org ([199.232.76.166] helo=mx10.gnu.org) by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1IiIb5-0003NQ-9B for emacs-pretest-bug@gnu.org; Wed, 17 Oct 2007 19:46:43 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by monty-python.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1IiIb1-00011M-P8 for emacs-pretest-bug@gnu.org; Wed, 17 Oct 2007 19:46:43 -0400 Original-Received: from outmail1.freedom2surf.net ([194.106.33.237]) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1IiIau-0000yv-4k; Wed, 17 Oct 2007 19:46:32 -0400 Original-Received: from [127.0.0.1] (i-83-67-23-108.freedom2surf.net [83.67.23.108]) by outmail1.freedom2surf.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0016550100; Thu, 18 Oct 2007 00:46:31 +0100 (BST) User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.6 (Windows/20070728) In-Reply-To: X-detected-kernel: by monty-python.gnu.org: Linux 2.4-2.6 X-detected-kernel: by monty-python.gnu.org: Linux 2.6, seldom 2.4 (older, 4) X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:81111 gmane.emacs.pretest.bugs:20156 Archived-At: Eli Zaretskii wrote: > Thanks for reporting this. If no one beats me to it, I will work on > fixing it in a few days. > I added an entry to etc/PROBLEMS already. I don't think it can be fixed easily - there appear to be multiple problems beyond just the timezone name, including the fact that standard libraries on Windows only read the TZ environment variable on startup, and that the system clock on Windows is kept as localtime so changes to the timezone have a different effect than on systems that use UTC for the system clock.