GNU bug report logs - #5408
date-to-time problem

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Package: emacs;

Reported by: Lennart Borgman <lennart.borgman <at> gmail.com>

Date: Sun, 17 Jan 2010 23:14:01 UTC

Severity: normal

Done: Chong Yidong <cyd <at> stupidchicken.com>

Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.

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From: Juanma Barranquero <lekktu <at> gmail.com>
To: Lennart Borgman <lennart.borgman <at> gmail.com>
Cc: 5408 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#5408: date-to-time problem
Date: Mon, 18 Jan 2010 00:53:32 +0100

On Mon, Jan 18, 2010 at 00:12, Lennart Borgman
<lennart.borgman <at> gmail.com> wrote:

> Is not this one hour wrong?

`date-to-time' calls `timezone-make-date-arpa-standard', but does not
pass it local timezone info, so it assumes GMT.

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ELISP> (timezone-make-date-arpa-standard "Sun Jan 17 22:39:58 2010")
"17 Jan 2010 23:39:58 +0100"
ELISP> (timezone-make-date-arpa-standard "Sun Jan 17 22:39:58 2010" "GMT+1")
"17 Jan 2010 22:39:58 +0100"

    Juanma
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