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> From: Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
> Date: Sat, 17 Aug 2019 00:54:07 -0700
> Cc: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>, andrewjmoreton@gmail.com, emacs-devel@gnu.org
> 
> The POSIX tradition is to call these timestamps "broken-down time", and that is 
> what glibc calls them too. How about if we use that name instead? It would help 
> to be more consistent with other GNU code.

"Broken-down time" will replace "decoded time", I presume?  I think
I'm okay with that, but what will we use instead of "encoded time"
then?