From: Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen <larsi@ifi.uio.no>
Subject: Re: [current-time-string reports incorrect time]
Date: 18 Jan 1997 02:23:26 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <m2zpy7ixo1.fsf@proletcult.slip.ifi.uio.no> (raw)
In-Reply-To: Danny Siu's message of 17 Jan 1997 02:40:14 +0000
Danny Siu <dsiu@Adobe.COM> writes:
> Doing (current-time-string) before starting rgnus-0.81 gives "Thu Jan 16
> 18:32:19 1997". It is the correct local time.
>
> After rgnus-0.81 started (current-time-string) gives "Fri Jan 17 02:35:31
> 1997" which is 8 hours ahead of local time.
Yes... I remember seeing RMS saying something like this; there was a
bug in some timezone thingie that would set the timezone if one called
one of the time functions with a specified timezone. It has been
fixed in Emacs now, but I'm not sure whether the same patch has been
applied to XEmacs...
--
(domestic pets only, the antidote for overdose, milk.)
larsi@ifi.uio.no * Lars Ingebrigtsen
next prev parent reply other threads:[~1997-01-18 1:23 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
1997-01-17 2:40 Danny Siu
1997-01-17 16:19 ` [++] " Colin Rafferty
1997-01-18 1:23 ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen [this message]
1997-01-20 22:15 ` Danny Siu
1997-01-20 23:09 ` Rich Pieri
1997-01-20 23:40 ` Danny Siu
1997-01-21 0:27 ` Justin Sheehy
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