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From: Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
To: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org>
Cc: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>,
	andrewjmoreton@gmail.com, emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: encode-time vs decode-time
Date: Sat, 17 Aug 2019 13:56:57 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <83af2f70-480b-6e5f-06a5-876224e2b715@cs.ucla.edu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87v9uvmsfa.fsf@mouse.gnus.org>

Lars Ingebrigtsen wrote:
> "Broken-down time" sounds OK to me, although there may be some
> confusion: Some may assume that it's a faulty time or something.

Yes, I'm not a big fan of "broken-down time" either. Its main advantages are (1) 
we can't think of a better name and (2) it's used elsewhere in GNU and POSIX.

> And when we get to the accessor names, it perhaps gets even more
> potentially confusing:
> 
> (broken-down-seconds time)
> (broken-down-zone time)
> 
> Hm...  Perhaps not ideal?

The POSIX identifier for broken-down time is 'tm', as in 'struct tm'. We could 
steal that identifier too, e.g., (tm-seconds time), (tm-zone time), etc. Again, 
not ideal, but perhaps better than (broken-down-seconds time). If the prefix 
'tm-' is too short, we could expand it to 'time-tm-' or something like that.



  reply	other threads:[~2019-08-17 20:56 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 45+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2019-07-29  9:48 Support for sub-second time in decoded time Lars Ingebrigtsen
2019-07-29 14:03 ` Stefan Monnier
2019-07-29 14:12   ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2019-07-29 14:43     ` Stefan Monnier
2019-07-29 15:00       ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2019-07-29 17:50         ` Stefan Monnier
2019-07-30 11:33           ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2019-07-29 16:08     ` encode-time vs decode-time Stefan Monnier
2019-07-30 10:32       ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2019-07-30 11:34         ` Andy Moreton
2019-07-30 11:37           ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2019-07-30 17:54             ` Paul Eggert
2019-07-30 22:50               ` Paul Eggert
2019-07-31 19:03               ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2019-07-31 19:31                 ` Stefan Monnier
2019-08-06  1:48                 ` Paul Eggert
2019-08-06 14:21                   ` Eli Zaretskii
2019-08-06 15:59                     ` Paul Eggert
2019-08-06 18:23                       ` Eli Zaretskii
2019-08-07  1:02                         ` Paul Eggert
2019-08-07  2:41                           ` Stefan Monnier
2019-08-07 14:47                             ` Eli Zaretskii
2019-08-11 23:39                               ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2019-08-17  6:47                             ` Paul Eggert
2019-08-07 11:33                           ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2019-08-17  7:54                             ` Paul Eggert
2019-08-17  8:16                               ` Eli Zaretskii
2019-08-17  9:33                                 ` Paul Eggert
2019-08-17 20:46                               ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2019-08-17 20:56                                 ` Paul Eggert [this message]
2019-08-17 21:42                                   ` Stefan Monnier
2019-08-17 22:53                                     ` Paul Eggert
2019-08-19 21:12                                       ` Stefan Monnier
2019-08-21 10:55                                         ` Adam Porter
2019-08-21 20:20                                           ` Paul Eggert
2019-08-26 10:59                                             ` Adam Porter
2019-08-26 21:35                                               ` Paul Eggert
2019-08-07 14:44                           ` Eli Zaretskii
2019-08-07 11:41                   ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2019-08-17  9:25                     ` Paul Eggert
2019-08-17 20:51                       ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2019-07-29 14:23 ` Support for sub-second time in decoded time Eli Zaretskii
2019-07-29 14:59   ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2019-07-29 16:46 ` Paul Eggert
2019-07-30 11:43   ` Lars Ingebrigtsen

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