bug#72570: 31.0.50; Regression in date-to-time

[Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>]

> From: Ulrich Mueller <ulm@gentoo.org>
> Cc: eggert@cs.ucla.edu,  72570@debbugs.gnu.org
> Date: Thu, 15 Aug 2024 09:18:35 +0200
> 
> >>>>> On Thu, 15 Aug 2024, Eli Zaretskii wrote:
> 
> >> +++
> >> ** 'date-to-time' now defaults to local time
> >> The function now assumes local time instead of Universal Time when
> >> its argument lacks explicit time zone information.  This has been its
> >> de-facto behavior since Emacs 24 although documentation said otherwise.
> >> Also, the fallback on 'timezone-make-date-arpa-standard' has been
> >> removed because its supported date styles can be handled by
> >> 'parse-time-string'.
> 
> > Please say explicitly how to get the UTC interpretation instead of the
> > local-time interpretation (although it is arguably almost obvious).
> 
> Like this?
> 
>   To restore the previously documented behavior, specify "+0000" or "Z"
>   as the time zone in the argument.

Yes, thanks.