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[h-e-w] RE: format-time-string (was Emacs 22.2.92 pretest)


From: Drew Adams
Subject: [h-e-w] RE: format-time-string (was Emacs 22.2.92 pretest)
Date: Tue, 2 Sep 2008 20:30:50 -0700

> First of all, thank you for releaseing Emacs 22.2.92 pretest
> and preparing Windows binary!
> 
> Unfortunately, Emacs on Windows (not including UNIX and Mac) have a
> bug on format-time-string. (format-time-string "%Z") does not return
> anything.
> 
> (let ((system-time-locale "C"))
>   (format-time-string "%Z"))
> -> ""
> 
> In Japanese environment, this should return "JST".
> 
> Some mailreaders on Emacs use this function to produce the Date:
> field. (See the header of this message.) So, this bug has a big
> impact.
> 
> I hope this bug will be fixed before Emacs 22.3 will be released.

This has been reported:

http://emacsbugs.donarmstrong.com/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=641

Unfortunately, it was relegated to the wish list.





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