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: "Juanma Barranquero" <lekktu <at> gmail.com>
To: "Drew Adams" <drew.adams <at> oracle.com>
Cc: 641 <at> debbugs.gnu.org, "Eli Zaretskii" <eliz <at> gnu.org>,
        bug-gnu-emacs <at> gnu.org
Subject: bug#641: format-time-string %Z does not work, starting with Emacs 22.2
Date: Thu, 7 Aug 2008 05:16:53 +0200

On Thu, Aug 7, 2008 at 01:05, Drew Adams <drew.adams <at> oracle.com> wrote:

> But I feel
> nevertheless that we should continue to provide some way to produce a timezone
> name (on Windows), however rudimentary, language-specific, or non-compliant that
> name might be.

IMHO, Windows timezone names (because of its non-standard nature,
localization and, often, bad translations) are a waste of time and we
should not invest resources in trying to do anything with them.

   Juanma
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