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From: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org>
To: "Basil L. Contovounesios" <contovob@tcd.ie>
Cc: 48298@debbugs.gnu.org, lewwadoo@gmail.com
Subject: bug#48298: Invalid time specification: encode-time((0 30 11 1 1 0 nil -1 nil))
Date: Sun, 09 May 2021 12:09:41 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87czu0nrq2.fsf@gnus.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87k0o8441c.fsf@tcd.ie> (Basil L. Contovounesios's message of "Sun, 09 May 2021 11:03:59 +0100")

"Basil L. Contovounesios" <contovob@tcd.ie> writes:

> It already does:
>
>   The default value is based on January 1st, 1970 at midnight.
>
> Can it be clarified further?

Oh, so it was just a bug...

>> (All the other defaults are as zero-ish as possible, and 1970 is used
>> here only because of technical limitations.)
>
> Is it worth mentioning in the docstring that 1970 is chosen to guarantee
> portability, similar to the note in encode-time's docstring?

Sure; makes sense.

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  reply	other threads:[~2021-05-09 10:09 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 18+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2021-05-08 16:55 bug#48298: Invalid time specification: encode-time((0 30 11 1 1 0 nil -1 nil)) Евгений Михайлов
2021-05-08 22:37 ` Basil L. Contovounesios
2021-05-09  7:07   ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-05-09  6:46 ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-05-09  8:19   ` Basil L. Contovounesios
2021-05-09  8:27     ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-05-09  8:54       ` Basil L. Contovounesios
2021-05-09  9:52         ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2021-05-09 10:03           ` Basil L. Contovounesios
2021-05-09 10:09             ` Lars Ingebrigtsen [this message]
2021-05-09 11:02               ` Basil L. Contovounesios
2021-05-09 10:35         ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-05-09 10:59           ` Basil L. Contovounesios
2021-05-09 11:49             ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-05-09 13:57               ` Basil L. Contovounesios
2021-05-09  7:30 ` Andreas Schwab
2021-05-11 20:56 ` bug#48298: Евгений Михайлов
2021-05-11 21:37   ` bug#48298: Basil L. Contovounesios

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