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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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 23:31:31 +0200

Juanma Barranquero wrote:
> 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.

Yes, that is what I am asking about. As martin (and someone more) said 
it could be DST.

To make it clear what I am asking for: Isn't there an official list that 
we could map to, using those variables that are needed?
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