From: "Stephen J. Turnbull" <stephen@xemacs.org>
To: Juri Linkov <juri@jurta.org>
Cc: Deniz Dogan <deniz.a.m.dogan@gmail.com>, emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: What do I use if not `float-time'?
Date: Thu, 07 Jan 2010 10:08:06 +0900 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87aawqlo21.fsf@uwakimon.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <877hrv6u2q.fsf@mail.jurta.org>
Juri Linkov writes:
> >> Okay, so what do I use instead? I just want a "UNIX timestamp" as an
> >> integer or string. What's the idiomatic way to get that?
> >
> > Use `current-time'. The trick is that you then have to deal with multiple
> > integers (because Emacs ints are (often) shorter than 32 bits).
>
> Is a list of integers still necessary for 64-bit machines where
> most-positive-fixnum is greater than the number of microseconds
> since January 1, 1970.
Yes, because the API is defined that way. You could rewrite callers
to check whether it's just an integer or a list, but why bother? This
is not called that often.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2010-01-07 1:08 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-01-06 15:15 What do I use if not `float-time'? Deniz Dogan
2010-01-06 15:29 ` Davis Herring
2010-01-06 20:27 ` Juri Linkov
2010-01-07 1:08 ` Stephen J. Turnbull [this message]
2010-01-06 20:40 ` Deniz Dogan
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