bug#641: format-time-string %Z does not work, starting with Emacs 22.2

[Juanma Barranquero]

On Thu, Aug 7, 2008 at 22:36, Lennart Borgman (gmail)
<lennart.borgman@gmail.com> wrote:

> I would expect there to be just a little bit more than 24 possible different
> return values from "%z". It would be 24 if all zones where whole hours
> different from UTC (or what it is called now). But since some zones uses
> half hours it could be more.
>
> However 87 is a surprisingly high figure for me.

You're assuming too much. Countries in the same apparent time zone do
not have to follow the same DST rules, for example.

   Juanma