GNU bug report logs - #641
format-time-string %Z does not work, starting with Emacs 22.2

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Packages: w32, emacs;

Reported by: "Drew Adams" <drew.adams <at> oracle.com>

Date: Fri, 1 Aug 2008 16:55:06 UTC

Severity: wishlist

Merged with 9794

Found in versions 22.2, 23.0.60, 24.0.90

Done: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>

Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.

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Message #156 received at submit <at> emacsbugs.donarmstrong.com (full text, mbox):

From: "Juanma Barranquero" <lekktu <at> gmail.com>
To: "Lennart Borgman (gmail)" <lennart.borgman <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: Re: bug#641: format-time-string %Z does not work, starting with Emacs 22.2
Date: Thu, 7 Aug 2008 23:13:27 +0200

On Thu, Aug 7, 2008 at 23:04, Lennart Borgman (gmail)
<lennart.borgman <at> gmail.com> wrote:

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

Who's talking about offsets from UTC? We were talking about
Microsoft's "time zones", i.e., entries in
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\Time
Zones. These contain additional info.

   Juanma
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