Subject: Re: bug#22302: 25.1.50; time-stamp ignores time-stamp-time-zone

From: Glenn Morris <[email-masked]>
Date: Tue, 12 Jan 2016 12:47:06 -0500

Paul Eggert wrote:

> By the way, the value "UTC" is not portable to non-GNU systems, and
> POSIX says that in theory it could cause Emacs to crash.

Well, that sure sounds like a recipe for trouble.
Please make it so that perfectly reasonable user-input can't crash Emacs.

> The value should be "UTC0" or (in Emacs 25) t. 

I would guess that very few people are going to use "UTC0" instead of
"UTC". Can't say I blame them.