From: Kenichi Handa <handa@m17n.org>
Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: format-time-string bug
Date: Tue, 13 Apr 2004 10:49:43 +0900 (JST) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <200404130149.KAA11662@etlken.m17n.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87zn9g3an9.fsf@kali.intranet> (message from Marcelo Toledo on Mon, 12 Apr 2004 21:54:34 -0400)
In article <87zn9g3an9.fsf@kali.intranet>, Marcelo Toledo <marcelo@marcelotoledo.org> writes:
> A few days ago I was coding something related to time, then I needed to
> use the function `format-time-string´ and the code above shows what I
> have found wrong:
> (setq t1 (current-time))
> (sleep-for 3)
> (setq t2 (current-time))
> (format-time-string "(%H:%M:%S)" (time-subtract t2 t1))
> the result of the last expression should be something near 00:00:03.
> For me it is appearing 20:00:03. For other people it's appearing
> diferent values but never what I am really expecting. Could someone
> please try?
20:00:03 is the correct value for you because it seems that
your timezone is -0400. As I'm in JST, I get "09:00:03".
If you want "00:00:03", you must call format-time-string as
below.
> (format-time-string "(%H:%M:%S)" (time-subtract t2 t1) t)
By the way, format-time-string is for time, not for a
period.
---
Ken'ichi HANDA
handa@m17n.org
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2004-04-13 1:54 format-time-string bug Marcelo Toledo
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2004-04-13 2:54 ` Danilo Segan
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