Mercurial > emacs
changeset 72370:18daa6c46ee7
(Time Parsing): Add %z to format-time-string, per docstring.
Add cross reference to glibc manual for strftime.
| author | Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> |
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| date | Sat, 12 Aug 2006 12:55:07 +0000 |
| parents | 479403e5eb4e |
| children | c1c598c2cd83 |
| files | lispref/os.texi |
| diffstat | 1 files changed, 11 insertions(+), 7 deletions(-) [+] |
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--- a/lispref/os.texi Sat Aug 12 12:38:38 2006 +0000 +++ b/lispref/os.texi Sat Aug 12 12:55:07 2006 +0000 @@ -1256,7 +1256,9 @@ @item %Y This stands for the year with century. @item %Z -This stands for the time zone abbreviation. +This stands for the time zone abbreviation (e.g., @samp{EST}). +@item %z +This stands for the time zone numerical offset (e.g., @samp{-0500}). @end table You can also specify the field width and type of padding for any of @@ -1286,12 +1288,14 @@ Universal Time; @code{nil} means describe it using what Emacs believes is the local time zone (see @code{current-time-zone}). -This function uses the C library function @code{strftime} to do most of -the work. In order to communicate with that function, it first encodes -its argument using the coding system specified by -@code{locale-coding-system} (@pxref{Locales}); after @code{strftime} -returns the resulting string, @code{format-time-string} decodes the -string using that same coding system. +This function uses the C library function @code{strftime} +(@pxref{Formatting Calendar Time,,, libc, The GNU C Library Reference +Manual}) to do most of the work. In order to communicate with that +function, it first encodes its argument using the coding system +specified by @code{locale-coding-system} (@pxref{Locales}); after +@code{strftime} returns the resulting string, +@code{format-time-string} decodes the string using that same coding +system. @end defun @defun seconds-to-time seconds