Re: calendar gets wrong end for Daylight Savings Time

[Kim F. Storm]

Eli Zaretskii <address@hidden> writes:

>> From: Richard Stallman <address@hidden>
>> Date: Tue, 07 Nov 2006 23:18:08 -0500
>> Cc: address@hidden, address@hidden, address@hidden
>> 
>> That sounds like exactly the right thing for the Emacs calendar to
>> consult.
>
> I don't think Emacs needs to consult tzdata, because on system that
> have it, the library functions which handle time, such as mktime,
> already consult that data base.  So the times you get from the library
> are already correctly taking into account the DST settings for the
> correct year.

But it's not just a matter of whether DST applies to the current time & date.

I would assume that M-x calendar must use the database directly to
find out _when_ DST starts and ends to print the calendar correctly.

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Kim F. Storm <address@hidden> http://www.cua.dk