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"Robert Mihram" <rob.dm@berlin.snafu.de> writes:

> > Ick.  Is there some way of telling `format-time-string' that we don't
> > want to use any locale?  Or the "us" locale, or something?
> 
> I don't think so, but we could use timezone-make-date-arpa-standard:            
I'd rather not use timezone, so I've fiddled with message-make-date
some to use parse-time and its thingies.

I think it's rather disgusting that the locales get in the way of
using functions sensibly.  `format-time-string' is such a nice
function, but if it keeps growing in this annoying manner, it's going
to get rather useless after a while.

-- 
(domestic pets only, the antidote for overdose, milk.)
  larsi@gnus.org * Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen