From: Ted Zlatanov <tzz@lifelogs.com>
To: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#641: format-time-string %Z does not work, starting with Emacs 22.2
Date: Wed, 06 Aug 2008 14:53:12 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <86skthj4yf.fsf@lifelogs.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: mailman.15951.1218049658.18990.bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
On Wed, 06 Aug 2008 21:53:58 +0300 Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> wrote:
EZ> Strings we find in the Windows version of `tzname' do not follow the
EZ> above form: they are just text describing the time zone, they include
EZ> blanks, and they are localized (so instead of, e.g., "Jerusalem
EZ> Standard Time" you may well see something in Hebrew). I submit that
EZ> emitting such time-zone names instead of standard compliant form is a
EZ> bad idea. It is IMO better to not emit the name at all than emit the
EZ> Windows names. Fortunately, the Posix standard of `strftime'
EZ> explicitly says that %Z could produce an empty string, so programs
EZ> that expect what %Z produces should also expect to see an empty
EZ> string. So we decided to use this fire escape because behaving as if
EZ> `tzname' was not available on Windows is better than inducing
EZ> potential breakage on recipients of such non-standard time-zone names.
EZ> (If Windows time-zone names were always in US English, we could
EZ> perhaps repair this by translating them to the equivalent RFC-822
EZ> compliant identifiers. But because they can also be localized, this
EZ> job is much harder, unless someone comes up with an exhaustive list of
EZ> all the possible spellings of each and every one of Windows time-zone
EZ> names.)
Does this help? The Microsoft documentation linked by this article
implies that GetTimeZoneInformation() will DTRT.
http://www.chronos-st.org/Discovering%20the%20Local%20Time%20Zone--Why%20It%27s%20a%20Hard%20Problem.html
Ted
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-08-06 19:53 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 46+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-08-04 21:24 bug#641: format-time-string %Z does not work, starting with Emacs 22.2 martin rudalics
2008-08-04 22:07 ` Drew Adams
2008-08-05 6:28 ` martin rudalics
2008-08-05 18:34 ` Eli Zaretskii
2008-08-05 23:54 ` Drew Adams
2008-08-06 3:22 ` Eli Zaretskii
2008-08-06 5:40 ` Drew Adams
2008-08-06 18:53 ` Eli Zaretskii
2008-08-06 19:48 ` Drew Adams
2008-08-06 20:34 ` Juanma Barranquero
2008-08-06 23:05 ` Drew Adams
2008-08-07 3:16 ` Juanma Barranquero
[not found] ` <mailman.15951.1218049658.18990.bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2008-08-06 19:53 ` Ted Zlatanov [this message]
2008-08-06 21:20 ` Eli Zaretskii
2008-08-06 21:35 ` Juanma Barranquero
[not found] ` <mailman.15962.1218059257.18990.bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2008-08-07 13:20 ` Ted Zlatanov
2008-08-07 18:20 ` Eli Zaretskii
2008-08-07 18:51 ` Lennart Borgman (gmail)
2008-08-07 18:59 ` Eli Zaretskii
2008-08-07 20:14 ` Lennart Borgman (gmail)
2008-08-07 20:29 ` Eli Zaretskii
2008-08-07 20:36 ` Lennart Borgman (gmail)
2008-08-07 20:58 ` Juanma Barranquero
2008-08-07 21:04 ` Lennart Borgman (gmail)
2008-08-07 21:13 ` Juanma Barranquero
2008-08-07 21:31 ` Lennart Borgman (gmail)
2008-08-08 7:10 ` Eli Zaretskii
[not found] ` <mailman.16075.1218180793.18990.bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2008-08-08 15:04 ` Ted Zlatanov
2008-08-08 15:57 ` Drew Adams
2008-08-08 17:22 ` Eli Zaretskii
2008-08-08 17:27 ` Drew Adams
2008-08-09 1:00 ` OFFICE ZERO
2008-08-09 14:13 ` OFFICE ZERO
2008-08-08 18:46 ` Stefan Monnier
2008-08-09 0:59 ` OFFICE ZERO
2008-08-08 18:47 ` Andreas Schwab
2008-08-09 1:01 ` OFFICE ZERO
2008-08-09 14:13 ` OFFICE ZERO
2008-08-09 1:01 ` OFFICE ZERO
2008-08-08 17:16 ` Eli Zaretskii
2008-08-09 14:12 ` OFFICE ZERO
2008-08-08 7:21 ` Eli Zaretskii
2008-08-07 21:47 ` Drew Adams
2008-08-07 21:20 ` martin rudalics
2008-08-08 7:17 ` Eli Zaretskii
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2008-08-01 16:45 Drew Adams
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