From: Glenn Morris <rgm@gnu.org>
To: "Greenberg\, Adam" <Adam.Greenberg@FMR.COM>
Cc: 14778@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#14778: 24.3; Woman elapsed time calculation fails.
Date: Wed, 03 Jul 2013 12:06:04 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <3wzju3y6fn.fsf@fencepost.gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <8F6E7A3F1455DF43A98EA4F43D80CFF42580B63FFC@MSGRTPCCRC2WIN.DMN1.FMR.COM> (Adam Greenberg's message of "Wed, 3 Jul 2013 08:57:18 -0400")
"Greenberg, Adam" wrote:
> Emacs reports this error: Invalid time specification whenever I
> execute woman. For example m-x woman hostname (invoke woman to view
> the hostname man page).
I cannot reproduce this. Does it happen with emacs -Q?
> The error occurs in the line:
> (setq time (float-time (time-since start-time)))
>
> The error is that time-since returns the value of a time difference
> (already a float value) not a time value.
Not for me it doesn't. What does the following return for you:
(time-since before-init-time)
For me it returns eg
(0 123 804775 342000)
What does
C-h f time-since
say?
> In GNU Emacs 24.3.1 (x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu, GTK+ Version 2.18.9)
> of 2013-07-01 on vlelayerdev3
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2013-07-03 16:06 UTC|newest]
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2013-07-03 12:57 bug#14778: 24.3; Woman elapsed time calculation fails Greenberg, Adam
2013-07-03 16:06 ` Glenn Morris [this message]
2013-07-03 16:11 ` Greenberg, Adam
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