GNU bug report logs - #9794
24.0.90; `format-time-string' no good for %Z

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Packages: emacs, w32;

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

Date: Wed, 19 Oct 2011 06:46:02 UTC

Severity: wishlist

Merged with 641

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: 9794 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#9794: 24.0.90; `format-time-string' no good for %Z
Date: Wed, 19 Oct 2011 10:33:29 +0200

> From: "Drew Adams" <drew.adams <at> oracle.com>
> Date: Wed, 19 Oct 2011 00:43:28 -0700
> 
> And just because a non-Windows developer thinks that letting them
> see "(Pacific Daylight Time)" is not useful to them and "()" is more
> meaningful.  Sheesh.

No, it's because a _Windows_ developer found out that the Windows
time-zone names violate international standards for what %Z should
produce, which breaks other Emacs features that use the results.
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