Does any of date-to-time, parse-iso8601-time-string, or timezone-parse-date fit the bill? Clément. On 2016-10-30 03:32, Hong Xu wrote: > > In GNU Emacs 25.1.50.8 (x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu, GTK+ Version 3.14.5) > Repository revision: 91c97b6eed708f5a1f34478b52f42ef9e51efcb5 > Windowing system distributor 'The X.Org Foundation', version 11.0.11604000 > System Description: Debian GNU/Linux 8.6 (jessie) > > Configured using: > 'configure --with-xwidgets --with-modules > --prefix=/home/hong/.local/opt/emacs' > > Configured features: > XPM JPEG TIFF GIF PNG RSVG IMAGEMAGICK SOUND GPM DBUS GCONF GSETTINGS > NOTIFY ACL LIBSELINUX GNUTLS LIBXML2 FREETYPE M17N_FLT LIBOTF XFT ZLIB > TOOLKIT_SCROLL_BARS GTK3 X11 MODULES XWIDGETS > > Important settings: > value of $LC_CTYPE: zh_CN.UTF-8 > value of $LANG: en_US.UTF-8 > value of $XMODIFIERS: @im=fcitx > locale-coding-system: utf-8-unix > > The function parse-time-string cannot parse ISO 8601 time string, e.g., > 2005-04-07T22:13:13, which is pretty ubiquitous nowadays. > (parse-time-string 2005-04-07T22:13:13) returns a list full of nils. > > <#secure method=pgpmime mode=sign> > > > > >