From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: "Lennart Borgman (gmail)" Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.bugs Subject: bug#641: format-time-string %Z does not work, starting with Emacs 22.2 Date: Thu, 07 Aug 2008 22:14:10 +0200 Message-ID: <489B5792.80504@gmail.com> References: <4897737C.90709@gmx.at> <001501c8f67e$7c63b300$0200a8c0@us.oracle.com> <008601c8f756$9bce0f00$0200a8c0@us.oracle.com> <00a001c8f786$fa665d30$0200a8c0@us.oracle.com> <86skthj4yf.fsf@lifelogs.com> <86fxphgdw1.fsf@lifelogs.com> <489B441F.6070402@gmail.com> Reply-To: "Lennart Borgman \(gmail\)" , 641@emacsbugs.donarmstrong.com NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1218140887 6511 80.91.229.12 (7 Aug 2008 20:28:07 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 7 Aug 2008 20:28:07 +0000 (UTC) Cc: tzz@lifelogs.com, bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org To: Eli Zaretskii Original-X-From: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Aug 07 22:28:57 2008 Return-path: Envelope-to: geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1KRC6N-0003BE-4i for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 07 Aug 2008 22:28:51 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:49435 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1KRC5R-0005HB-Ir for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 07 Aug 2008 16:27:53 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1KRC5L-0005FY-1C for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 07 Aug 2008 16:27:47 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1KRC5J-0005DL-1w for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 07 Aug 2008 16:27:46 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=48184 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1KRC5I-0005Cg-Ia for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 07 Aug 2008 16:27:44 -0400 Original-Received: from rzlab.ucr.edu ([138.23.92.77]:34495) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:DHE_RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1KRC5F-0003Ly-HY for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 07 Aug 2008 16:27:43 -0400 Original-Received: from rzlab.ucr.edu (rzlab.ucr.edu [127.0.0.1]) by rzlab.ucr.edu (8.13.8/8.13.8/Debian-3) with ESMTP id m77KRNQm012278; Thu, 7 Aug 2008 13:27:23 -0700 Original-Received: (from debbugs@localhost) by rzlab.ucr.edu (8.13.8/8.13.8/Submit) id m77KK362009568; Thu, 7 Aug 2008 13:20:03 -0700 X-Loop: don@donarmstrong.com Resent-From: "Lennart Borgman (gmail)" Resent-To: bug-submit-list@donarmstrong.com Resent-CC: Emacs Bugs , don@donarmstrong.com Resent-Date: Thu, 07 Aug 2008 20:20:03 +0000 Resent-Message-ID: Resent-Sender: don@donarmstrong.com X-Emacs-PR-Message: report 641 X-Emacs-PR-Package: emacs,w32 X-Emacs-PR-Keywords: Original-Received: via spool by submit@emacsbugs.donarmstrong.com id=B.12181400717992 (code B ref -1); Thu, 07 Aug 2008 20:20:03 +0000 Original-Received: (at submit) by emacsbugs.donarmstrong.com; 7 Aug 2008 20:14:31 +0000 Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org (lists.gnu.org [199.232.76.165]) by rzlab.ucr.edu (8.13.8/8.13.8/Debian-3) with ESMTP id m77KERqY007986 for ; Thu, 7 Aug 2008 13:14:29 -0700 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1KRBsR-00012R-AA for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 07 Aug 2008 16:14:27 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1KRBsN-0000wQ-5H for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 07 Aug 2008 16:14:26 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=58607 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1KRBsN-0000wH-1A for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 07 Aug 2008 16:14:23 -0400 Original-Received: from ch-smtp01.sth.basefarm.net ([80.76.149.212]:58787) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:DHE_RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1KRBsJ-00018E-13; Thu, 07 Aug 2008 16:14:19 -0400 Original-Received: from c83-254-151-176.bredband.comhem.se ([83.254.151.176]:63879 helo=[127.0.0.1]) by ch-smtp01.sth.basefarm.net with esmtp (Exim 4.68) (envelope-from ) id 1KRBsG-00078L-5m; Thu, 07 Aug 2008 22:14:17 +0200 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8.1.9) Gecko/20071031 Thunderbird/2.0.0.9 Mnenhy/0.7.5.666 In-Reply-To: X-Antivirus: avast! 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X-detected-kernel: by monty-python.gnu.org: Linux 2.6 (newer, 3) Resent-Date: Thu, 07 Aug 2008 16:27:46 -0400 X-BeenThere: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors" List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.bugs:19115 Archived-At: Eli Zaretskii wrote: >> Date: Thu, 07 Aug 2008 20:51:11 +0200 >> From: "Lennart Borgman (gmail)" >> CC: Ted Zlatanov , bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org >> >> Eli Zaretskii wrote: >>>> From: Ted Zlatanov >>>> Date: Thu, 07 Aug 2008 08:20:46 -0500 >>>> >>>> We could build a database of known Microsoft timezones and map them to >>>> ISO timezones. It has to be done just once and then updated very >>>> rarely--timezone names don't change often. The full list of timezones >>>> is in >>>> >>>> HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\Time Zones >>> I already mentioned this possibility in an earlier message here. The >>> problem is that what you actually see in `tzname' could be a localized >>> name, not the US English name. So unless someone finds (or crafts) an >>> exhaustive list of all TZ names both in English and in any localized >>> language to which each one could be translated by Windows, this will >>> work only on some machines. >> >> How many time zones are there? > > I see 87 on my machine. Does that mean that there is a mapping one to many from the numeric format to the string format? How is that resolved?