Subject: Re: bug#9794: 24.0.90; `format-time-string' no good for %Z

From: Eli Zaretskii <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, 20 Oct 2011 18:03:50 +0200

> Date: Thu, 20 Oct 2011 08:23:29 -0700
> From: Paul Eggert <[email-masked]>
> CC: Andreas Schwab <[email-masked]>, [email-masked]
> 
> The simplest way around the problem, which is what Emacs Lisp
> code does now, is to follow Andreas's advice use %z.  Any
> outside-of-Emacs Lisp code that uses %Z for RFC822 zones should
> be fixed to use %z, because %Z does not work and has never worked
> in general.

OK, thanks for explaining.  I will wait a few days for Jason to agree
or disagree, and if no objections pop up, I will commit the changes to
config.nt.