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Subject: Re: Questions about encode-time and decode-time
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> From: Pascal Quesseveur <pquessev@gmail.com>
> Date: Wed, 24 Mar 2021 15:36:44 +0100
> 
> >"EZ" == Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> writes:
> 
>   EZ> Please show what exactly you tried.
> 
> (decode-time (encode-time (list 0 30 9 14 3 2021 nil -1 "EST-1EDT")))
> 
> --> (0 30 8 14 3 2021 0 nil 3600)

Thanks.  Please explain what you expected this to yield and why.
(Since EST-1 is not an existing time zone, I cannot myself guess the
answer to that question.)