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: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
To: Drew Adams <drew.adams <at> oracle.com>
Cc: 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: Fri, 08 Aug 2008 20:22:30 +0300

> From: "Drew Adams" <drew.adams <at> oracle.com>
> Date: Fri, 8 Aug 2008 08:57:11 -0700
> Cc: 
> 
> IOW, we should give users _both_ possibilities unambiguously: Posix-only and
> possibly-non-Posix, better-than-nothing, YMMV, human-readable name.
> 
> We can do that by introducing a new format key, in addition to %Z.

I'm okay with having a new format, or with adding a function that
would return a time-zone name that is just a string, not the spec
codified by Posix.  (It could return strings like "Asia/Riyadh" on
Posix platforms.)
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