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display-time-world & EDT/DST
From: |
Jambunathan K |
Subject: |
display-time-world & EDT/DST |
Date: |
Wed, 27 Jun 2012 15:09:05 +0530 |
User-agent: |
Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.1 (windows-nt) |
,---- M-x display-time-world
| Seattle Wednesday 27 June 01:24 PDT
| New York Wednesday 27 June 04:24 EDT <=== Off by 1 hr
| London Wednesday 27 June 09:24 BST
| Paris Wednesday 27 June 10:24 CDT
| Bangalore Wednesday 27 June 14:54 IST <=== Local Timezone
| Tokyo Wednesday 27 June 18:24 JST
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,---- http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/city.html?n=179
|
| Current Time|Wednesday, 27 June 2012, 05:27:42 EDT <=== Time now
|
| | Standard time zone: | UTC/GMT -5 hours |
| | Daylight saving time: | +1 hour |
| | Current time zone offset: | UTC/GMT -4 hours |
| | Time zone abbreviation: | EDT - Eastern Daylight Time |
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As you can see, the time reported by Emacs is off by 1 hr. Is there a
way to fix it?
Also I could take some help with interpreting the value of this
variable. Should display-time-world be documented in Emacs reference
manual?
,----[ C-h v display-time-world-list RET ]
| display-time-world-list is a variable defined in `time.el'.
| Its value is (("PST8PDT" "Seattle")
| ("EST5EDT" "New York")
| ("GMT0BST" "London")
| ("CET-1CDT" "Paris")
| ("IST-5:30" "Bangalore") <=== Why this ''minus''. Isn't IST = GMT+5:30?
| ("JST-9" "Tokyo"))
|
|
| Documentation:
| Alist of time zones and places for `display-time-world' to display.
| Each element has the form (TIMEZONE LABEL).
| TIMEZONE should be in a format supported by your system. See the
| documentation of `zoneinfo-style-world-list' and
| `legacy-style-world-list' for two widely used formats. LABEL is
| a string to display as the label of that TIMEZONE's time.
|
| You can customize this variable.
|
| This variable was introduced, or its default value was changed, in
| version 23.1 of Emacs.
|
| [back]
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ps: I am really interested in local Ottawa time (which is apparently
same as NY's throughout the year)
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- display-time-world & EDT/DST,
Jambunathan K <=