Re: format-time-string %z spec
Hrvoje Niksic <hniksic(a)srce.hr> writes:
> Emacs 20 allows %z to specify the numerical time zone. The
> format-time-string in XEmacs 21 doesn't seem to have this, and I
> think it should.
Why?
Because rfc1036bis says that the Date header should use a numerical
timezone, and not a symbolic one. (Well, you can use GMT and UT, and
you can have the symbolic one in the comments, but there should be a
numeric timezone there.)
The FSF sources label `%z' as a "GNU extension".
Numeric time zones is where it's at these days. Symbolic ones are
less useful.
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