From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: "Christian" Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Timezone handling problem in icalendar.el/icalendar-import-* Date: Fri, 18 Dec 2009 08:47:57 +0100 Message-ID: References: <847hsmbqjv.fsf@web.de> <84k4wlxqqy.fsf@web.de> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1261122526 10125 80.91.229.12 (18 Dec 2009 07:48:46 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 18 Dec 2009 07:48:46 +0000 (UTC) Cc: discussions , Lynbech Christian To: Ulf Jasper Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri Dec 18 08:48:38 2009 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1NLXZl-0007hN-Qw for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 18 Dec 2009 08:48:38 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:60133 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1NLXZl-00079n-SC for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 18 Dec 2009 02:48:37 -0500 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1NLXZf-00077Q-KK for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 18 Dec 2009 02:48:31 -0500 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1NLXZa-00072A-Fy for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 18 Dec 2009 02:48:31 -0500 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=57710 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1NLXZa-000722-Df for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 18 Dec 2009 02:48:26 -0500 Original-Received: from mx20.gnu.org ([199.232.41.8]:57997) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1NLXZZ-0004aD-M6 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 18 Dec 2009 02:48:25 -0500 Original-Received: from ebb05.tieto.com ([131.207.168.36]) by mx20.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1NLXZW-00054n-ST for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 18 Dec 2009 02:48:23 -0500 X-AuditID: 83cfa824-b7c90ae000003c3f-cf-4b2b33b48199 Original-Received: from FIHGA-EXHUB01.eu.tieto.com ( [131.207.136.34]) (using TLS with cipher AES128-SHA (AES128-SHA/128 bits)) (Client did not present a certificate) by ebb05.tieto.com (SMTP Mailer) with SMTP id D1.6D.15423.4B33B2B4; Fri, 18 Dec 2009 09:48:04 +0200 (EET) Original-Received: from uw000475.eu.tieto.com (10.48.99.26) by inbound.tieto.com (131.207.136.49) with Microsoft SMTP Server id 8.2.176.0; Fri, 18 Dec 2009 09:48:03 +0200 In-Reply-To: <84k4wlxqqy.fsf@web.de> (Ulf Jasper's message of "Thu, 17 Dec 2009 22:57:57 +0200") User-Agent: Gnus/5.110011 (No Gnus v0.11) Emacs/23.1.50 (gnu/linux) X-Brightmail-Tracker: AAAAARIbAQk= X-detected-operating-system: by mx20.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6 (newer, 2) X-detected-operating-system: by monty-python.gnu.org: Genre and OS details not recognized. X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:118707 Archived-At: >>>>> "Ulf" == Ulf Jasper writes: Ulf> I'll fix it in CVS (and add some unit tests). Thanks. While you are at it, perhaps you should also act on Andreas' observation that icalendar.el uses illegal timezone names (ie. "(STD?)" and "(DST?)"). As I said, it happens to work because mktime() sensibly enough will assume GMT when nothing better can be deduced but why not just use "GMT" directly? -- Christian