Re: Emacs Lisp date/time functions and RFC 3339?

[Andreas Schwab <schwab@suse.de>]

storm@cua.dk (Kim F. Storm) writes:

> Andreas Schwab <schwab@suse.de> writes:
>
>> "T. V. Raman" <raman@users.sf.net> writes:
>>
>>> The date/time handling functions in Emacs ---
>>> calendar/time-date.el, together with the primitives for
>>> encode-time and decode-time do not handle this format well, nor
>>> does format-time-string.
>>
>> In which way does format-time-string not handle that format?
>
> E.g.  %z => -0800   whereas the rfc requests -08:00

GNU date supports %:z, %::z and %:::z, should be easy to add that to
format-time-string.

> Also for UTC, %z => 0000 whereas the rfc requests Z

If you know that you are formatting UTC you can just put the Z in the
format string.  The use of Z for UTC is not mandated.

Andreas.

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