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26.0.60; Gnus: broken timezone in citation line

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Message #14 received at 28476 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Andreas Schwab <schwab <at> linux-m68k.org>
To: Mike Kupfer <mkupfer <at> alum.berkeley.edu>
Cc: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>, 28476 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#28476: 26.0.60; Gnus: broken timezone in citation line
Date: Sun, 17 Sep 2017 17:59:47 +0200

On Sep 17 2017, Mike Kupfer <mkupfer <at> alum.berkeley.edu> wrote:

> Eli Zaretskii wrote:
>
>> > From: Mike Kupfer <mkupfer <at> alum.berkeley.edu>
>
>> > I have message-citation-line-format set to
>> > 
>> >   "On %e %B %Y %R %Z, %N wrote:\n"
> [...]
>> I think you should use %z, not %Z.  %Z gives the time-zone _name_, a
>> string, whereas %z gives its numeric form.  FWIW, I get the time-zone
>> name from %Z in both Emacs 25.3 and the current emacs-26 branch.  Not
>> sure why you get different results in 25.3.
>
> How are you testing this?  The docstring for
> message-citation-line-format says that %z and %Z are special-cased, with
> both producing the time zone in numeric form.

That was broken by commit 7d835d8e79.

Andreas.

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