bug#5408: date-to-time problem

[Lennart Borgman]

On Mon, Jan 18, 2010 at 12:53 AM, Juanma Barranquero <lekktu@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Mon, Jan 18, 2010 at 00:12, Lennart Borgman
> <lennart.borgman@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Is not this one hour wrong?
>
> `date-to-time' calls `timezone-make-date-arpa-standard', but does not
> pass it local timezone info, so it assumes GMT.
>
> Compare
>
> ELISP> (timezone-make-date-arpa-standard "Sun Jan 17 22:39:58 2010")
> "17 Jan 2010 23:39:58 +0100"
> ELISP> (timezone-make-date-arpa-standard "Sun Jan 17 22:39:58 2010" "GMT+1")
> "17 Jan 2010 22:39:58 +0100"


Ok, thanks for all the answers.

But date-to-time does not say that it assumes GMT.

And current-time-string does not say it will give my local time.