From: "Edward O'Connor" <hober0@gmail.com>
To: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Cc: www-archive@w3.org
Subject: Format modifier suggestion for format-time-string
Date: Fri, 19 Nov 2010 11:23:09 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <AANLkTimxeUJ5agMxEBYT4+1oEN=jYgUwpUoUfmvt9-qU@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
Hi.
When generating data formats that rely on RFC 3339 date and time formats
(Atom, say) in elisp, I've often found myself having to do something
like this:
(defun rfc3339-datetime (&optional time)
(let ((stamp (format-time-string "%Y-%m-%dT%H:%M:%S%z" time)))
(format "%s:%s" (substring stamp 0 -2) (substring stamp -2))))
In RFC 3339, the colon separating hours and minutes within a time zone
offset is mandatory, but `format-time-string' doesn't have the ability
to generate time zone offsets with a colon in them.
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 do you think?
Thanks for the consideration,
Ted
next reply other threads:[~2010-11-19 19:23 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-11-19 19:23 Edward O'Connor [this message]
2010-11-19 19:30 ` Format modifier suggestion for format-time-string Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
2010-11-19 19:36 ` Edward O'Connor
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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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