GNU bug report logs - #21020
24.4; `display-time-world' tampers with TZ

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Package: emacs;

Reported by: William G. Gardella <wgg2 <at> member.fsf.org>

Date: Thu, 9 Jul 2015 19:41:02 UTC

Severity: normal

Tags: patch

Found in version 24.4

Done: Paul Eggert <eggert <at> cs.ucla.edu>

Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.

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Message #13 received at 21020 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
To: Paul Eggert <eggert <at> cs.ucla.edu>
Cc: 21020 <at> debbugs.gnu.org, wgg2 <at> member.fsf.org
Subject: Re: 24.4; `display-time-world' tampers with TZ
Date: Sun, 26 Jul 2015 17:48:30 +0300

> Date: Sun, 26 Jul 2015 00:09:40 -0700
> From: Paul Eggert <eggert <at> cs.ucla.edu>
> CC: 21020 <at> debbugs.gnu.org, Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
> 
> Thanks for the bug report.  Improving Emacs time zones has been on my TODO list 
> for ages, and the report prompted me to do that.  Attached is a patch which 
> works for me on GNU/Linux.  I'm CC'ing this to Eli to give him a heads-up in 
> case it has implications on MS-Windows.

This is a large patch, touching a lot of code.  I hope we have some
tests to make sure this doesn't cause any regressions.

Other than that, please make in nt/gnulib.mk the same changes you did
in lib/gnulib.mk, otherwise I think the changes will not compile on
Windows.

Thanks.
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