From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Jason Rumney Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.bugs Subject: bug#11807: (Windows XP issue?) Re: bug#11807: M-x display-time-world & EDT/DST Date: Sat, 30 Jun 2012 11:37:43 +0800 Message-ID: <871ukx4ghk.fsf@gnu.org> References: <81lij7lv4b.fsf@gmail.com> <814npvkdwo.fsf@gmail.com> <81k3yrn4cx.fsf@gmail.com> <81a9znn20v.fsf@gmail.com> <81pq8jbkzr.fsf@gmail.com> <81hatvbi7i.fsf@gmail.com> <81sjdewjt9.fsf_-_@gmail.com> <83pq8i76l4.fsf@gnu.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1341027533 18126 80.91.229.3 (30 Jun 2012 03:38:53 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 30 Jun 2012 03:38:53 +0000 (UTC) Cc: schwab@linux-m68k.org, Jambunathan K , 11807@debbugs.gnu.org To: Eli Zaretskii Original-X-From: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sat Jun 30 05:38:52 2012 Return-path: Envelope-to: geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1SkoWE-00061H-On for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sat, 30 Jun 2012 05:38:46 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:45733 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1SkoWE-00072h-Pb for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 29 Jun 2012 23:38:46 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([208.118.235.92]:48127) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1SkoWB-00070B-F0 for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 29 Jun 2012 23:38:44 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1SkoW9-0007gH-D2 for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 29 Jun 2012 23:38:43 -0400 Original-Received: from debbugs.gnu.org ([140.186.70.43]:56827) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1SkoW9-0007g9-78 for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 29 Jun 2012 23:38:41 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-debbugs by debbugs.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.72) (envelope-from ) id 1SkoaL-0005S6-ML for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 29 Jun 2012 23:43:01 -0400 X-Loop: help-debbugs@gnu.org Resent-From: Jason Rumney Original-Sender: debbugs-submit-bounces@debbugs.gnu.org Resent-CC: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Resent-Date: Sat, 30 Jun 2012 03:43:01 +0000 Resent-Message-ID: Resent-Sender: help-debbugs@gnu.org X-GNU-PR-Message: followup 11807 X-GNU-PR-Package: emacs X-GNU-PR-Keywords: Original-Received: via spool by 11807-submit@debbugs.gnu.org id=B11807.134102774120905 (code B ref 11807); Sat, 30 Jun 2012 03:43:01 +0000 Original-Received: (at 11807) by debbugs.gnu.org; 30 Jun 2012 03:42:21 +0000 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:38140 helo=debbugs.gnu.org) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.72) (envelope-from ) id 1SkoZg-0005R7-PG for submit@debbugs.gnu.org; Fri, 29 Jun 2012 23:42:21 -0400 Original-Received: from mail-pb0-f44.google.com ([209.85.160.44]:34680) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.72) (envelope-from ) id 1SkoZe-0005Qz-2J for 11807@debbugs.gnu.org; Fri, 29 Jun 2012 23:42:19 -0400 Original-Received: by pbcwy7 with SMTP id wy7so5098036pbc.3 for <11807@debbugs.gnu.org>; Fri, 29 Jun 2012 20:37:56 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=20120113; h=sender:from:to:cc:subject:references:date:in-reply-to:message-id :user-agent:mime-version:content-type; bh=AgYVLCecUFoXr6jkskikBGBlzKBE/XbdNwAqzT3eHvM=; b=xUy9zgACG8WQxNqIMbVoPdKJC+HfUf8+2M4+FlF2eXz8m139N2xOZbwR7T94RYSedI PZHsRwuOuLjKuw8pXk/cafqchBWK4ZCUVTLPXFYLGoVNvyRHk6vBR+7OlwI2eQfnQxlz gqWwjU5Fxo/paa3/o7jXl+jMGhWishwZ2vCF61u1r8hRB8WYh4/bcV+EyfHFbnPVSgKp iKE/YwAsfCcT73YCZq1M17CtmhetJG8X9TF2YSTAHZkvVZj4exrLr+Q2jMrl6pmlKpb6 7k+ygcXNTgtmue0iLFLJgWOdcc+OMmdRJ/fwUf5aMjyf3y758RyCH32t82YH7HCml8G3 /ZWg== Original-Received: by 10.68.226.102 with SMTP id rr6mr12045085pbc.99.1341027476240; Fri, 29 Jun 2012 20:37:56 -0700 (PDT) Original-Received: from home.jasonrumney.net ([180.75.123.16]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id ph1sm7208728pbb.45.2012.06.29.20.37.52 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=OTHER); Fri, 29 Jun 2012 20:37:55 -0700 (PDT) Original-Received: by home.jasonrumney.net (Postfix, from userid 1000) id BDC0C1731; Sat, 30 Jun 2012 11:37:43 +0800 (MYT) In-Reply-To: <83pq8i76l4.fsf@gnu.org> (Eli Zaretskii's message of "Fri, 29 Jun 2012 13:31:03 +0300") User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.1.50 (gnu/linux) X-BeenThere: debbugs-submit@debbugs.gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.13 Precedence: list X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6 (newer, 2) X-Received-From: 140.186.70.43 X-BeenThere: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org List-Id: "Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors" List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.bugs:61430 Archived-At: Eli Zaretskii writes: > I don't think the MS-Windows version of tzset supports TZ values such > as CET-1CEST. The time-zone strings it supports need to be 3-letter, > not 4-letter. See this thread for more: That may be an issue for that particular timezone string, but I think the issue is deeper than that. From my recollection, Windows always applies the timezone rules configured in the system control panel, it only partially supports TZ environment variables for overriding those. More precisely, Windows itself does not support the TZ variable at all, the C runtime library does, but retains calls into the Windows system library for information that is missing from the TZ variable such as DST start/end dates (which do not exist for K Jambunathan's locale, so DST is never applied on his machine).