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bug#9794: 24.0.90; `format-time-string' no good for %Z
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Drew Adams |
Subject: |
bug#9794: 24.0.90; `format-time-string' no good for %Z |
Date: |
Wed, 19 Oct 2011 07:29:48 -0700 |
> > And just because a non-Windows developer thinks that letting them
> > see "(Pacific Daylight Time)" is not useful to them and "()" is more
> > meaningful. Sheesh.
>
> No, it's because a _Windows_ developer found out that the Windows
> time-zone names violate international standards for what %Z should
> produce, which breaks other Emacs features that use the results.
No. There is nothing to prevent Emacs from DTRT and providing _both_ the
Windows time-zone info and POSIX-standard info, using separate formatting codes.
Read the #641 thread.
Nothing in the GNU charter/mission/philosophy requires Emacs to _limit_ itself
to POSIX compliance. Providing a POSIX-compliant time-zone formatting code is
one thing - a good thing, no doubt. Not providing other available, non-POSIX
time-zone information that can be useful to users is another thing - a sorry
mistake.
- bug#9794: 24.0.90; `format-time-string' no good for %Z, (continued)
- bug#9794: 24.0.90; `format-time-string' no good for %Z, Eli Zaretskii, 2011/10/20
- bug#9794: 24.0.90; `format-time-string' no good for %Z, Andreas Schwab, 2011/10/20
- bug#9794: 24.0.90; `format-time-string' no good for %Z, Eli Zaretskii, 2011/10/20
- bug#9794: 24.0.90; `format-time-string' no good for %Z, Andreas Schwab, 2011/10/20
- bug#9794: 24.0.90; `format-time-string' no good for %Z, Eli Zaretskii, 2011/10/20
- bug#9794: 24.0.90; `format-time-string' no good for %Z, Paul Eggert, 2011/10/20
- bug#9794: 24.0.90; `format-time-string' no good for %Z, Eli Zaretskii, 2011/10/20
- bug#9794: 24.0.90; `format-time-string' no good for %Z, Jason Rumney, 2011/10/21
- bug#9794: 24.0.90; `format-time-string' no good for %Z, Paul Eggert, 2011/10/21
- bug#641: bug#9794: 24.0.90; `format-time-string' no good for %Z, Eli Zaretskii, 2011/10/22
- bug#9794: 24.0.90; `format-time-string' no good for %Z,
Drew Adams <=
- bug#9794: 24.0.90; `format-time-string' no good for %Z, Eli Zaretskii, 2011/10/19
bug#9794: 24.0.90; `format-time-string' no good for %Z, Eli Zaretskii, 2011/10/19