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: Sat, 20 Oct 2007 21:54:46 +0100 Message-ID: <471A6B16.8060406@gnu.org> References: <878x6165pn.fsf@offby1.atm01.sea.blarg.net> <47169ECD.8090401@gnu.org> 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 1192913914 10070 80.91.229.12 (20 Oct 2007 20:58:34 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 20 Oct 2007 20:58:34 +0000 (UTC) Cc: offby1@blarg.net, emacs-pretest-bug@gnu.org, apple@kanis.eu To: Eli Zaretskii Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sat Oct 20 22:58:25 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 1IjLOo-0001I8-KN for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sat, 20 Oct 2007 22:58:22 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1IjLOh-0007EC-87 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sat, 20 Oct 2007 16:58:15 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1IjLOe-0007E7-EM for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 20 Oct 2007 16:58:12 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1IjLOb-0007Dq-Rj for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 20 Oct 2007 16:58:11 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1IjLOb-0007Dn-Jd for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 20 Oct 2007 16:58:09 -0400 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([140.186.70.10]) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1IjLOZ-0003Lh-TF for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 20 Oct 2007 16:58:08 -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 1IjLOZ-00044y-8u for emacs-pretest-bug@gnu.org; Sat, 20 Oct 2007 16:58:07 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by monty-python.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1IjLOV-0003Ki-Bq for emacs-pretest-bug@gnu.org; Sat, 20 Oct 2007 16:58:06 -0400 Original-Received: from outmail1.freedom2surf.net ([194.106.33.237]) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1IjLLY-0002LF-QD; Sat, 20 Oct 2007 16:55:01 -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 0E5F150721; Sat, 20 Oct 2007 21:54:59 +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:81314 gmane.emacs.pretest.bugs:20178 Archived-At: Eli Zaretskii wrote: > I don't see on my system that TZ is only read on startup. The > attached simple test program demonstrates that TZ can be changed > during the program's run with expected results, at least on my XP SP2 > box. > You're right. I was testing using 3 letter timezones, as per the Microsoft docs. But in fact it needs 3 letters + offset (+ optionally 3 letters for DST). I suspect from past experience with MS libraries though, that the DST changeover dates will not be handled properly.