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From: "Edward O'Connor" <hober0@gmail.com>
To: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Cc: www-archive@w3.org
Subject: Re: Format modifier suggestion for format-time-string
Date: Fri, 19 Nov 2010 11:36:19 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <AANLkTimqTotxj9YJQc46M_YkV-Vx-HucP0T3uz=EToRB@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <m3fwuxaz6s.fsf@quimbies.gnus.org>

Hi,

>> I'd like to suggest the addition of a : modifier, such that
>> (format-time-string "%:z") would generate an RFC 3339-compatible time
>> zone offset.
>
> What a coincidence.  :-)

No coincidence—it was that emacs-devel thread that reminded me of this
issue.

> I've been playing with dropping the gnulib strftime.c into Emacs
> today, and that seems to make %:z work as required:

I'm very happy to hear it!

> I'm guessing this will be for Emacs 24, though.

I suppose I'll go with something like this compatibility test for now:

(let ((test "%:z")) (string-equal test (format-time-string test)))


Thanks again,
Ted



  reply	other threads:[~2010-11-19 19:36 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2010-11-19 19:23 Format modifier suggestion for format-time-string Edward O'Connor
2010-11-19 19:30 ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
2010-11-19 19:36   ` Edward O'Connor [this message]
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2010-11-21  4:48 MON KEY
2010-11-21 17:47 ` Eli Zaretskii
2010-11-21 20:18   ` MON KEY

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