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format-time-string %Z does not work, starting with Emacs 22.2

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From: "Lennart Borgman (gmail)" <lennart.borgman <at> gmail.com>
To: Juanma Barranquero <lekktu <at> gmail.com>
Cc: 641 <at> debbugs.gnu.org, Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>,
        tzz <at> lifelogs.com, bug-gnu-emacs <at> gnu.org
Subject: bug#641: format-time-string %Z does not work, starting with Emacs 22.2
Date: Thu, 07 Aug 2008 23:04:12 +0200

Juanma Barranquero wrote:
> On Thu, Aug 7, 2008 at 22:36, Lennart Borgman (gmail)
> <lennart.borgman <at> gmail.com> wrote:
> 
>> I would expect there to be just a little bit more than 24 possible different
>> return values from "%z". It would be 24 if all zones where whole hours
>> different from UTC (or what it is called now). But since some zones uses
>> half hours it could be more.
>>
>> However 87 is a surprisingly high figure for me.
> 
> You're assuming too much. Countries in the same apparent time zone do
> not have to follow the same DST rules, for example.

Yes, I surely am assuming something that is wrong ;-)

Is not "+0200" the offset from the UTC standard time zone (or whatever 
it is called)? Is there 87 such values?

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