Eli Zaretskii <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> From: Richard Stallman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >> Date: Tue, 07 Nov 2006 23:18:08 -0500 >> Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [email protected] >> >> That sounds like exactly the right thing for the Emacs calendar to >> consult. > > I don't think Emacs needs to consult tzdata, because on system that > have it, the library functions which handle time, such as mktime, > already consult that data base. So the times you get from the library > are already correctly taking into account the DST settings for the > correct year.
But it's not just a matter of whether DST applies to the current time & date. I would assume that M-x calendar must use the database directly to find out _when_ DST starts and ends to print the calendar correctly. -- Kim F. Storm <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://www.cua.dk _______________________________________________ emacs-pretest-bug mailing list [email protected] http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/emacs-pretest-bug
