[current-time-string reports incorrect time]

[current-time-string reports incorrect time]

[Danny Siu]

Guys,

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.

This didn't occur in rgnus-0.66.

I am using rgnus-0.81 with XEmacs-19.14.

Does anyone see this bug?

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[++] Re: [current-time-string reports incorrect time]

[Colin Rafferty]

Danny Siu 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.

I am still on 0.79, so I would not see this bug.  However, I noticed
that you are probably located in California (which is eight hours behind
Greenwich) and that your header has the following line:

> Date: 17 Jan 1997 02:40:14 +0000

I suspect that something is changing your time zone to +0000 from its
appropriate setting of -0800.

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Re: [current-time-string reports incorrect time]

[Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen]

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...

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Re: [current-time-string reports incorrect time]

[Danny Siu]

Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen writes:

  Lars> 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.

  Lars> Yes...  I remember seeing RMS saying something like this; there was
  Lars> a bug in some timezone thingie that would set the timezone if one
  Lars> called one of the time functions with a specified timezone.  It has
  Lars> been fixed in Emacs now, but I'm not sure whether the same patch has
  Lars> been applied to XEmacs...

If assume that this is the problem, is there a way to specific timezone in
(X)Emacs?  8 hours is way off...  I want to change timezone to at least
somewhere near California...

Also worth notice is that the problem didn't happen in rgnus-0.66.  Did any
timezone related stuff in GNUS (message.el, parse-time.el, etc...) get
changed from then to now?

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Re: [current-time-string reports incorrect time]

[Rich Pieri]

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>>>>> "DS" == Danny Siu <dsiu@Adobe.COM> writes:

DS> If assume that this is the problem, is there a way to specific
DS> timezone in (X)Emacs?  8 hours is way off...  I want to change
DS> timezone to at least somewhere near California...

Ummm... California *IS* 8 hours off of GMT/UTC.

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Re: [current-time-string reports incorrect time]

[Danny Siu]

Rich Pieri writes:

  Rich> -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE-----
  >>>>>> "DS" == Danny Siu <dsiu@Adobe.COM> writes:

  DS> If assume that this is the problem, is there a way to specific
  DS> timezone in (X)Emacs?  8 hours is way off...  I want to change
  DS> timezone to at least somewhere near California...

  Rich> Ummm... California *IS* 8 hours off of GMT/UTC.

Thats' right!  I am in California *but* (current-time-zone) gives (1 "XXX")
after I loaded rgnus!  (it was (-800 "PST") before rgnus is loaded)

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Re: [current-time-string reports incorrect time]

[Justin Sheehy]

>>>>> "DS" == Danny Siu <dsiu@Adobe.COM> writes:

DS> Thats' right!  I am in California *but* (current-time-zone) gives
DS> (1 "XXX") after I loaded rgnus!  (it was (-800 "PST") before rgnus
DS> is loaded)

I had exactly the same problem a while back. (well before the recent
versions of rgnus) I use Emacs, not XEmacs, and upgrading to 19.34
fixed the problem entirely.

I remember talking to Steve about this (regarding XEmacs), and the
strange part is that it looked like the relevant part of Emacs that
were fixed were identical to those in XEmacs, but XEmacs users still
occasionally see this behavior, while it is gone in Emacs 19.34.

But the literal "XXX" returned from (current-time-zone) makes me
pretty sure that this is the same bug, and that it is a bug in
whatever Emacs you are using, not in Gnus.

-Justin