From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
To: Ken Brown <kbrown@cornell.edu>
Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Time zone problem in cygwin
Date: Thu, 05 Feb 2009 22:38:58 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <utz78ty8t.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <498AFBE4.2070906@cornell.edu>
> Date: Thu, 05 Feb 2009 09:47:00 -0500
> From: Ken Brown <kbrown@cornell.edu>
>
> http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-devel/2008-11/msg00532.html
>
> Eli Zaretskii replied and asked for the value of (format-time-string
> "%Y-%m-%d %T %z"). The OP never responded, but the answer for me is
> the following: emacs 23 incorrectly reports 2009-02-05 13:35:36 -0100,
> whereas emacs 22.3 correctly gives 2009-02-05 09:36:13 -0500 a few
> seconds later. One further detail: emacs 23 gives the right time if I
> set TZ=America/New_York prior to starting emacs; but my understanding is
> that it's not supposed to be necessary to set TZ.
Unfortunately, I don't have Cygwin installed, so I'm forced to ask
you: can you please step through format-time-string in both Emacs 22.3
and Emacs 23, and see where does the difference come from?
Btw, were both binaries compiled with the same versions of the Cygwin
runtime libraries?
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-02-05 20:38 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-02-05 14:47 Time zone problem in cygwin Ken Brown
2009-02-05 20:38 ` Eli Zaretskii [this message]
2009-02-05 22:36 ` Ken Brown
2009-02-06 6:24 ` Eli Zaretskii
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2009-02-06 16:29 Angelo Graziosi
2009-02-06 16:50 ` Ken Brown
2009-02-06 17:40 ` Ken Brown
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