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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Message #80 received at 9794-done <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
To: Jason Rumney <jasonr <at> gnu.org>
Cc: eggert <at> cs.ucla.edu, 641-done <at> debbugs.gnu.org, drew.adams <at> oracle.com,
	9794-done <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#9794: 24.0.90; `format-time-string' no good for %Z
Date: Sat, 22 Oct 2011 11:21:57 +0200

> From: Jason Rumney <jasonr <at> gnu.org>
> Cc: Paul Eggert <eggert <at> cs.ucla.edu>,  drew.adams <at> oracle.com,  9794 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
> Date: Fri, 21 Oct 2011 23:40:20 +0800
> 
> So Paul is probably correct - we should not worry about RFC / POSIX or
> whatever compliance for %Z.

Thanks.  So, since everybody agrees, I committed as revision 106162
the changes to nt/config.nt that make current-time-zone and the
strftime's %Z format return a non-empty string on MS-Windows.
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