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I need some way in a piece of Emacs Lisp I'm writing to determine
details of the date and time...  The only thing I've found so far is
the function (current-time-string), which contains all the info that I
need _except_ the timezone.  I can use either the abbreviation or
(better) the GMT offset, or (best) both.  Does anyone know a way to
determine this from Emacs Lisp.

	-Mike Patton

P.S.  A side comment, I use (current-time-string) and extract
substrings from specific character positions.  The documentation for
(current-time-string) doesn't seem to promise that the format won't
change in future releases (I expect it won't, but if it does, the code
breaks and doesn't realize it).  Is there a better function for this
part as well?  Ideally the whole thing might best be done with a
function that returns a list or vector whose elements match those of a
struct tm in C.

P.P.S.  I'd prefer to use functions from the base release and NOT to
have the code depend on other packages, unless a really small piece
can be extracted to include with my release, as the code is going to
be used by some relatively novice emacs users who won't be up on
getting packages from all over the net