Re: [PATCH] Make display-time-mode time zone configurable

[Paul Eggert]

On 03/02/2016 04:39 PM, Mark Oteiza wrote:
> > I'm afraid we're starting to go in circles. I'm curious about why one 
> > would want to change just the mode-line's time zone, and you're 
> > responding that it's because one would want to change just the 
> > mode-line's time zone. :-) 
> You are repeatedly responding to the use case with the non-solution of
> setting the time zone globally in Emacs.

Yes, we are indeed going around in circles. The problem is that I 
haven't seen a real use case yet.

We already have a solution for an expert who for some reason needs a 
mode line in a different time zone from the Emacs default. As I 
understand it, you're asking to complicate Emacs by adding a feature to 
make it easier to configure Emacs to have this unusual behavior, so that 
a non-expert can more easily arrange for Emacs mode lines to be in the 
"wrong" time zone. My problem is that I don't understand why a 
non-expert would want to do that. And without understanding the actual 
need, it's hard to see why the proposed feature's benefits would be 
worth its costs.