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authorEli Zaretskii <[email protected]>2006-08-12 12:55:07 +0000
committerEli Zaretskii <[email protected]>2006-08-12 12:55:07 +0000
commit78e5d54902a455900943b3cb9327104cfd8f7cb4 (patch)
treef8c6ddf97465ba82774c0a2c8bb5f0983b0fe893 /lispref/os.texi
parent2d33a4790ac8139f865fa16577135c45a1420fab (diff)
(Time Parsing): Add %z to format-time-string, per docstring.
Add cross reference to glibc manual for strftime.
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diff --git a/lispref/os.texi b/lispref/os.texi
index 30f6688938..ab277afdce 100644
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@@ -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