Eval'ing the same way in Emacs 25.2 yielded the expected: predicate’s value is shown below. Documentation: Not documented as a variable. Value: (lambda nil (and (stringp parse-time-elt) (= (length parse-time-elt) 8) (= (aref parse-time-elt 2) 58) (= (aref parse-time-elt 5) 58))) Thannks. In GNU Emacs 26.1 (build 1, x86_64-pc-linux-gnu, GTK+ Version 3.20.10) of 2018-08-31 built on localhost.localdomain Windowing system distributor 'Fedora Project', version 11.0.11803000 Recent messages: Accepting certificate for news.gmane.org:nntp this session only auth-source-search: found 1 backends matching (:max 1 :host ("news.gmane.org" "news") :port ("119" "nntp" "nntp" "563" "nntps" "snews")) Making completion list... Configured using: 'configure 'CFLAGS=-DMAIL_USE_LOCKF -O0 -ggdb3 -pipe -Wall -Werror=format-security -fexceptions -fstack-protector-strong --param=ssp-buffer-size=4 -grecord-gcc-switches -m64 -mtune=generic' LDFLAGS=-Wl,-z,relro --disable-dependency-tracking --prefix=/tmp/emacs-26.1 --with-dbus --with-gif --with-jpeg --with-png --with-rsvg --with-lcms2 --with-tiff --with-xft --with-xpm --with-x-toolkit=gtk3 --with-gpm=yes --with-xwidgets --with-modules Configured features: XPM JPEG TIFF GIF PNG RSVG IMAGEMAGICK SOUND GPM DBUS GSETTINGS NOTIFY ACL LIBSELINUX GNUTLS LIBXML2 FREETYPE M17N_FLT LIBOTF XFT ZLIB TOOLKIT_SCROLL_BARS GTK3 X11 MODULES THREADS XWIDGETS LCMS2 Important settings: value of $LANG: en_US.UTF-8 value of $XMODIFIERS: @im=ibus locale-coding-system: utf-8-unix Major mode: Fundamental Minor modes in effect: gnus-desktop-notify-mode: t tooltip-mode: t global-eldoc-mode: t electric-indent-mode: t mouse-wheel-mode: t tool-bar-mode: t menu-bar-mode: t file-name-shadow-mode: t global-font-lock-mode: t blink-cursor-mode: t auto-composition-mode: t auto-encryption-mode: t auto-compression-mode: t line-number-mode: t transient-mark-mode: t Load-path shadows: None found. Features: (shadow sort mail-extr emacsbug timezone network-stream nsm gnus-agent gnus-srvr gnus-score score-mode nnvirtual gnus-msg gnus-cache gnus-demon nntp gnus-desktop-notify notifications dbus xml epa-file nnreddit json rx map gnus-art mm-uu mml2015 sieve sieve-mode sieve-manage starttls sasl sasl-anonymous sasl-login sasl-plain advice nnir gnus-sum gnus-group mm-url gnus-undo gnus-start gnus-cloud nnimap nnmail mail-source imap tls gnutls utf7 netrc parse-time gnus-spec gnus-int gnus-range gnus-win gnus message rmc puny seq dired desktop frameset edmacro kmacro dired-loaddefs subr-x format-spec rfc822 mml url url-proxy url-privacy url-expand url-methods url-history url-cookie url-domsuf url-util url-parse auth-source eieio byte-opt bytecomp byte-compile cconv eieio-core eieio-loaddefs url-vars mm-view mml-smime smime dig mailcap mml-sec password-cache epa epg cl-extra help-mode easymenu epg-config mm-decode mm-bodies mm-encode mail-parse rfc2231 mailabbrev sendmail derived gmm-utils mailheader wid-edit nnoo nnheader gnus-util rmail dframe rmail-loaddefs rfc2047 rfc2045 ietf-drums mm-util mail-prsvr mail-utils cl misearch multi-isearch elec-pair cl-seq easy-mmode cl-macs inline cl-loaddefs cl-lib gv pcase time-date mule-util tooltip eldoc electric uniquify ediff-hook vc-hooks lisp-float-type mwheel term/x-win x-win term/common-win x-dnd tool-bar dnd fontset image regexp-opt fringe tabulated-list replace newcomment text-mode elisp-mode lisp-mode prog-mode register page menu-bar rfn-eshadow isearch timer select scroll-bar mouse jit-lock font-lock syntax facemenu font-core term/tty-colors frame cl-generic cham georgian utf-8-lang misc-lang vietnamese tibetan thai tai-viet lao korean japanese eucjp-ms cp51932 hebrew greek romanian slovak czech european ethiopic indian cyrillic chinese composite charscript charprop case-table epa-hook jka-cmpr-hook help simple abbrev obarray minibuffer cl-preloaded nadvice loaddefs button faces cus-face macroexp files text-properties overlay sha1 md5 base64 format env code-pages mule custom widget hashtable-print-readable backquote dbusbind inotify lcms2 dynamic-setting system-font-setting font-render-setting xwidget-internal move-toolbar gtk x-toolkit x multi-tty make-network-process emacs) Memory information: ((conses 16 713549 27856) (symbols 48 125281 0) (miscs 40 69 217) (strings 32 102951 1953) (string-bytes 1 3940653) (vectors 16 10628) (vector-slots 8 550092 13500) (floats 8 261 220) (intervals 56 303 56) (buffers 992 21) (heap 1024 74130 2223))