Re: vmsort.el robustness improved (GNU Emacs 19.13 and later)

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From: Piercarlo Grandi
Date: Wed, 14 Jul 1993 07:25

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>>> On Tue, 13 Jul 1993 12:40:09 PDT, eggert@twinsun.com (Paul Eggert)
>>> said:

Paul> Jamie Zawinski's vmsort.el, as distributed by David MacKenzie in
Paul> the GNU Emacs 19 version of VM
Paul> (ftp.eng.umd.edu:pub/gnu/vm-5.33-19.tar.gz), contains a lot of
Paul> fragile contortions to find out the local timezone.  These
Paul> contortions are no longer necessary in GNU Emacs 19.13 and later,
Paul> which allows current-time-zone output to be passed as input to
Paul> timezone-make-date-sortable.

A more radical solution is to crib the sort code from GNUS; it is rather
well done, and fast, and handles the timezone. I have posted the
relevant patches some time ago...

Bye!

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