On Wed, Sep 5, 2018 at 2:49 PM Kaushal Modi <kaushal.modi@gmail.com> wrote:

>
> So.. is this a user error.. that elisp is not valid (i.e. nil not allowed
> in that list)?
>

So my second email in this thread was a false alarm then.

This works:

(apply #'encode-time
       (mapcar (lambda (el)
                 (or el 0))
               (parse-time-string "2018-09-05")))

But the first report on consistent timer errors in Messages buffer still
holds.
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Kaushal Modi