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Re: Timezone change in US
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Eli Zaretskii |
Subject: |
Re: Timezone change in US |
Date: |
Thu, 15 Mar 2007 22:10:00 +0200 |
> From: Chris McMahan <first_initiallastname@one.dot.net>
> Date: Thu, 15 Mar 2007 18:37:44 +0400
>
> I use cygwin to launch emacs so I can manipulate my environment
> settings and such within the tcsh shell, rather than my windows
> environment. This minimizes the potential collisions in application
> names and paths between my unix programs and my windows programs (some
> of which use unix program names for basic management).
I'm not sure I understand the potential problems. Can you give an
example of how starting Emacs from a Windows icon could cause trouble?
> I've been using this system for roughly 12 years now, and have had no
> real problems.
I don't doubt the fact, I'm just saying that you were lucky. Cygwin
and native Windows programs are incompatible, so much so that I don't
see any reason to try to figure out what went wrong in this specific
case.
> As far as the TZ environment variable inside emacs, it is showing as
> TZ=EST5EDT4,M3.2.0/2,M11.1.0/2
> Which is correct for the new time zone rules.
But we've already established that the Windows native versions of time
functions don't grok this syntax of TZ. I posted here a URL where the
Microsoft documentation clearly shows that. So I think it's no
mystery anymore that the above value of TZ does not do what you
expect: the runtime functions used by Emacs simply don't support such
values of TZ.
> There is something in
> the emacs program itself that still assuming I'm in EST
That something is the code that interprets the value of TZ: it cannot
parse the `M3.2.0/2,M11.1.0/2' part, so it doesn't switch to EDT4.
> even though
> the TCSH shell and MS Windows (XP) put me in EDT.
Your tcsh is a Cygwin program, so it uses the Cygwin implementation of
the time routines, which do grok this syntax of TZ.
- Re: Timezone change in US, (continued)
- Re: Timezone change in US, Eli Zaretskii, 2007/03/12
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- Re: Timezone change in US, Chris McMahan, 2007/03/13
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- Re: Timezone change in US, Chris McMahan, 2007/03/14
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- Re: Timezone change in US, Eli Zaretskii, 2007/03/14
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- Re: Timezone change in US, Chris McMahan, 2007/03/15
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- Re: Timezone change in US, Chris McMahan, 2007/03/16
- Re: Timezone change in US, Eli Zaretskii, 2007/03/16
- Re: Timezone change in US, Stefan Monnier, 2007/03/16
- Re: Timezone change in US, Eli Zaretskii, 2007/03/14
- Re: Timezone change in US, Eli Zaretskii, 2007/03/13