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>

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From: Lennart Borgman <lennart.borgman <at> gmail.com>
To: Juanma Barranquero <lekktu <at> gmail.com>
Cc: 5408 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#5408: date-to-time problem
Date: Mon, 18 Jan 2010 01:00:23 +0100

On Mon, Jan 18, 2010 at 12:53 AM, Juanma Barranquero <lekktu <at> gmail.com> wrote:
> 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.
>
> Compare
>
> 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"


Ok, thanks for all the answers.

But date-to-time does not say that it assumes GMT.

And current-time-string does not say it will give my local time.
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