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authorPaul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>2016-06-01 21:00:58 -0700
committerPaul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>2016-06-01 21:09:17 -0700
commit6b985764f07ae164d8142ba64774f2beb2856ca8 (patch)
tree8e4d3deb0d0c798f00489e4dc743737925296d76 /doc
parent1e5539e0b35d2a7fcd1f1772c4532430cb18471b (diff)
Port angle-bracket TZ settings to MS-Windows
* doc/lispref/os.texi (Time Zone Rules): Document MS-Windows lack of support for numeric time zone abbreviations. * src/w32.c (sys_putenv): Convert angle-bracket TZ syntax to MS-compatible syntax if possible, and to "ZZZ" otherwise. Problem reported by Kazuhiro Ito (Bug#23600).
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diff --git a/doc/lispref/os.texi b/doc/lispref/os.texi
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@@ -1327,7 +1327,8 @@ If it is @code{t}, the conversion uses Universal Time. If it is
a string, the conversion uses the time zone rule equivalent to setting
@env{TZ} to that string. If it is an integer @var{offset}, the
conversion uses a fixed time zone with the given offset and a numeric
-abbreviation. If it is a list (@var{offset} @var{abbr}), where
+abbreviation on POSIX-compatible platforms and an unspecified abbreviation
+on MS-Windows. If it is a list (@var{offset} @var{abbr}), where
@var{offset} is an integer number of seconds east of Universal Time
and @var{abbr} is a string, the conversion uses a fixed time zone with
the given offset and abbreviation.