[Emacs-diffs] Changes to emacs/lispref/os.texi,v

[Eli Zaretskii]

CVSROOT:        /cvsroot/emacs
Module name:    emacs
Changes by:     Eli Zaretskii <eliz>    06/08/12 12:55:08

Index: os.texi
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RCS file: /cvsroot/emacs/emacs/lispref/os.texi,v
retrieving revision 1.88
retrieving revision 1.89
diff -u -b -r1.88 -r1.89
--- os.texi     31 Jul 2006 18:42:37 -0000      1.88
+++ os.texi     12 Aug 2006 12:55:07 -0000      1.89
@@ -1256,7 +1256,9 @@
 @item %Y
 This stands for the year with century.
 @item %Z
-This stands for the time zone abbreviation.
+This stands for the time zone abbreviation (e.g., @samp{EST}).
address@hidden %z
+This stands for the time zone numerical offset (e.g., @samp{-0500}).
 @end table
 
 You can also specify the field width and type of padding for any of
@@ -1286,12 +1288,14 @@
 Universal Time; @code{nil} means describe it using what Emacs believes
 is the local time zone (see @code{current-time-zone}).
 
-This function uses the C library function @code{strftime} to do most of
-the work.  In order to communicate with that function, it first encodes
-its argument using the coding system specified by
address@hidden (@pxref{Locales}); after @code{strftime}
-returns the resulting string, @code{format-time-string} decodes the
-string using that same coding system.
+This function uses the C library function @code{strftime}
+(@pxref{Formatting Calendar Time,,, libc, The GNU C Library Reference
+Manual}) to do most of the work.  In order to communicate with that
+function, it first encodes its argument using the coding system
+specified by @code{locale-coding-system} (@pxref{Locales}); after
address@hidden returns the resulting string,
address@hidden decodes the string using that same coding
+system.
 @end defun
 
 @defun seconds-to-time seconds