bug#72285: 29.4; world-clock reports same time zone for all zones in world-clock-list

[Joseph Turner]

tags 72285 notabug

Thank you, Eli and Colin!


Colin Baxter <m43cap@yandex.com> writes:

>>>>>> Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors
> <Joseph> writes:
>
>     > With world-clock-list set to t (the default), world-clock works
>     > as
>     > expected.  If world-clock-list is set to an alist, the results
>     > are
>     > wrong.
>
>     > With emacs -Q, run M-x world-clock to see output:
>
>     > Seattle Wednesday 24 July 21:41 PDT New York Thursday 25 July
>     > 00:41 EDT London Thursday 25 July 05:41 BST Paris Thursday 25
>     > July
>     > 06:41 CDT Bangalore Thursday 25 July 10:11 IST Tokyo Thursday 25
>     > July 13:41 JST
>
>     > So good so far.  Now evaluate the following
>
>     > (require 'time) (setopt world-clock-list '(("Africa/Ouagadougou"
>     > "Ouagadougou") ("America/New_York" "New York") ("Asia/Shanghai"
>     > "Shanghai") ("Europe/Berlin" "Berlin")))
>
>     > and run M-x world-clock again to see:
>
>     > Ouagadougou Thursday 25 July 04:42 Africa New York Thursday 25
>     > July 04:42 America Shanghai Thursday 25 July 04:42 Asia Berlin
>     > Thursday 25 July 04:42 Europe
>
>     > All of the timezones are incorrectly set to UTC.
>
>     > My emacs was installed with Guix on top of Debian stable, so it
>     > wouldn't surprise me if this is not a bug but rather a
>     > configuration issue.  In any case, I'd appreciate some help!
>
> It might be your system because your recipe works for me:
>
> Ouagadougou Thursday 25 July 06:18 GMT
> New York    Thursday 25 July 02:18 EDT
> Shanghai    Thursday 25 July 14:18 CST
> Berlin      Thursday 25 July 08:18 CEST
>
> I'm using emacs-31.0.50 on an old Debian.
>
> Colin Baxter.