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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Message #20 received at 5408 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Juanma Barranquero <lekktu <at> gmail.com>
To: Lennart Borgman <lennart.borgman <at> gmail.com>
Cc: 5408 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#5408: date-to-time problem
Date: Mon, 18 Jan 2010 16:09:52 +0100

On Mon, Jan 18, 2010 at 01:00, Lennart Borgman
<lennart.borgman <at> gmail.com> wrote:

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

No. Perhaps it should.

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

It seems fair to default to your local timezone. Note that there's
also a `current-time-zone', so

ELISP> (current-time-zone)
(3600 "+0100")

ELISP> (current-time-zone (date-to-time "Sun Jan 17 22:39:58 2010"))
(3600 "+0100")

    Juanma
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