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From: | Paul Eggert |
Subject: | Re: [PATCH] Make display-time-mode time zone configurable |
Date: | Thu, 3 Mar 2016 16:24:57 -0800 |
User-agent: | Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:38.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/38.6.0 |
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.
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