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author | Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> | 2006-08-12 12:55:07 +0000 |
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committer | Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> | 2006-08-12 12:55:07 +0000 |
commit | 78e5d54902a455900943b3cb9327104cfd8f7cb4 (patch) | |
tree | f8c6ddf97465ba82774c0a2c8bb5f0983b0fe893 /lispref | |
parent | 2d33a4790ac8139f865fa16577135c45a1420fab (diff) | |
download | emacs-78e5d54902a455900943b3cb9327104cfd8f7cb4.tar.gz |
(Time Parsing): Add %z to format-time-string, per docstring.
Add cross reference to glibc manual for strftime.
Diffstat (limited to 'lispref')
-rw-r--r-- | lispref/os.texi | 18 |
1 files changed, 11 insertions, 7 deletions
diff --git a/lispref/os.texi b/lispref/os.texi index 30f66889387..ab277afdce6 100644 --- a/lispref/os.texi +++ b/lispref/os.texi @@ -1256,7 +1256,9 @@ This stands for the year without century (00-99). @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 @@ If @var{universal} is non-@code{nil}, that means to describe the time as 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 |