From: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org>
To: Damien Cassou <damien@cassou.me>
Cc: 46505@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#46505: 27.1.91; Having a hard time manipulating a date
Date: Fri, 17 Jun 2022 16:05:14 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87y1xv75d1.fsf@gnus.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <878s7rudzq.fsf@cassou.me> (Damien Cassou's message of "Sun, 14 Feb 2021 11:42:49 +0100")
Damien Cassou <damien@cassou.me> writes:
> Possible improvements:
>
> - make format-time-string accept as 2nd argument the return value of
> (iso8601-parse "2021-01-20T00:00:00") with a correct year
>
> - make format-time-string accept as 2nd argument the return value of
> (iso8601-parse "2021-01-20") without sending an "invalid time
> specification"
format-time-string takes Lisp timestamps as arguments, not decoded time
structures, and I don't think that could change -- the formats are
syntactically ambiguous.
> - restructure the manual to start with a page describing the different
> time formats used throughout Emacs with a table listing all conversion
> functions, the kind of input they take and the kind of output they
> generate and examples for each.
But I've now improved the documentation here to clarify which functions
take and return Lisp timestamps vs. decoded time structures.
--
(domestic pets only, the antidote for overdose, milk.)
bloggy blog: http://lars.ingebrigtsen.no
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2021-02-14 10:42 bug#46505: 27.1.91; Having a hard time manipulating a date Damien Cassou
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