Re: TZ ignored by (display-time)

[James Cloos]

>>>>> "Jason" == Jason Rumney <address@hidden> writes:

JimC> (display-time) fails to take the contents of TZ into effect when
JimC> formatting the time string.

Jason> The problem seems to be caused by the new display-time-world
Jason> functionality, so this bug shouldn't affect Emacs 22.

Jason> According to the documentation for set-time-zone-rule, it should
Jason> set the timezone back to the local timezone when the argument is
Jason> nil. But it doesn't seem to take note of the TZ environment
Jason> variable when it does this.

Cool.  Thanks for tracking it down.

Running (set-time-zone-rule (getenv "TZ")) does indeed cause
the (display-time) output to match the timezone specified by TZ.

I looked at the set-time-zone-rule DEFUN as well as set_time_zone_rule()
in src/editfns.c but am not sure how best to fix this....

-JimC
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