Re: problem with time-stamps on GNU/Linux and Windows

[Eli Zaretskii]

> Date: Thu, 04 Sep 2008 13:27:00 -0400
> From: ken <gebser@mousecar.com>
> Cc: Help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
> 
> >> Could you explain to me why I get slightly different time-stamps under
> >> Windows and Linux?
> > 
> > These localized weekday names come from the system. No amount of
> > configuration within Emacs will make them the same in Windows as they
> > are in GNU/Linux.
> 
> I'm not quite understanding your problem.  And I don't often use
> Windows.  But I would think that emacs should fetch the same couple
> words (i.e., two bytes) representing the time regardless of which OS it
> is running on.

The problem is not the time, but the abbreviated name of the second
day of the week ("Tue" in English).  These abbreviated names come from
a call to a library function, which are different on Windows and on
GNU/Linux, so they return different strings.

> But I'm guessing that the problem isn't the accuracy of
> the time, but rather the human-readable output derived from those words.

Emacs does not derive the names from those words, it simply returns
whatever the library functions hand it.