GNU bug report logs - #22302
25.1.50; time-stamp ignores time-stamp-time-zone

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Package: emacs;

Reported by: Harald Hanche-Olsen <hanche <at> math.ntnu.no>

Date: Mon, 4 Jan 2016 00:20:02 UTC

Severity: normal

Found in version 25.1.50

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

Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.

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From: Glenn Morris <rgm <at> gnu.org>
To: Paul Eggert <eggert <at> cs.ucla.edu>
Cc: 22302-done <at> debbugs.gnu.org, Harald Hanche-Olsen <hanche <at> math.ntnu.no>
Subject: bug#22302: 25.1.50; time-stamp ignores time-stamp-time-zone
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.
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