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From: Yuri Khan <yuri.v.khan@gmail.com>
To: "N. Jackson" <nljlistbox2@gmail.com>
Cc: "help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org" <help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: How to use display-time-world to show time in specific time zones?
Date: Sun, 21 Feb 2016 11:30:07 +0600	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAP_d_8Uf0WJ6wjopkTLbJ4U+dbqUGAbNzymJxP1fqdJK7OEWVg@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87vb5jl2yw.fsf@gmail.com>

On Sat, Feb 20, 2016 at 11:13 PM, N. Jackson <nljlistbox2@gmail.com> wrote:

>     TIMEZONE should be a string of the form AREA/LOCATION, where AREA is
>     the name of a region -- a continent or ocean, and LOCATION is the name
>     of a specific location, e.g., a city, within that region.
>     LABEL is a string to display as the label of that TIMEZONE’s time.
>
> But these values are _places_ not time zones. I'm wondering how, for
> example, one would add UTC to the list?

This paragraph of documentation is very similar to the documentation
on the Olson timezone database:

ftp://ftp.iana.org/tz/data/Theory

    Names normally have the form AREA/LOCATION, where AREA is the name
    of a continent or ocean, and LOCATION is the name of a specific
    location within that region.  North and South America share the same
    area, 'America'.  Typical names are 'Africa/Cairo', 'America/New_York',
    and 'Pacific/Honolulu'.

This strongly indicates that zoneinfo-style-world-list just refers to
timezone names as listed in that database.

Armed with this knowledge, you can try using "Etc/UTC", and browse the
database for names of other time zones.



      parent reply	other threads:[~2016-02-21  5:30 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2016-02-20 17:13 How to use display-time-world to show time in specific time zones? N. Jackson
2016-02-21  0:21 ` Emanuel Berg
2016-02-21  5:30 ` Yuri Khan [this message]

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