From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Kevin Rodgers Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: current-time-zone Date: Mon, 22 Dec 2003 12:12:36 -0700 Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Message-ID: <3FE74224.1020409@yahoo.com> References: NNTP-Posting-Host: deer.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1072120634 1076 80.91.224.253 (22 Dec 2003 19:17:14 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 22 Dec 2003 19:17:14 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon Dec 22 20:17:08 2003 Return-path: Original-Received: from monty-python.gnu.org ([199.232.76.173]) by deer.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 1AYVYC-0006U1-01 for ; Mon, 22 Dec 2003 20:17:08 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.24) id 1AYWTc-0002IN-Hs for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Mon, 22 Dec 2003 15:16:28 -0500 Original-Path: shelby.stanford.edu!newsfeed.stanford.edu!news-spur1.maxwell.syr.edu!news.maxwell.syr.edu!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!170.207.51.80!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 51 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: 170.207.51.80 Original-X-Trace: news.uni-berlin.de 1072120361 11184181 170.207.51.80 ([82742]) User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; SunOS i86pc; en-US; rv:0.9.4.1) Gecko/20020406 Netscape6/6.2.2 X-Accept-Language: en-us Original-Xref: shelby.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:119576 Original-To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.2 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:15515 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.help:15515 Jesper Harder wrote: > gebser@speakeasy.net writes: >>Should "M-x current-time-zone" return something? Using emacs v.20.7.1 >>all get in the minibuffer is "[No match]". >> > > `current-time-zone' is not an interactive function. You can't call it > with `M-x'. But you can if you do this: (defadvice current-time-zone (around interactive activate) "If called interactively, display the result in the echo area (and append to the *Messages* buffer). If a prefix arg is specified, prompt for SPECIFIED-TIME." (interactive (list (if current-prefix-arg (let ((now (decode-time (current-time)))) (encode-time (string-to-number (read-string "Year: " (format "%d" (nth 5 now)))) (string-to-number (read-string "Month: " (format "%d" (nth 4 now)))) (string-to-number (read-string "Day: " (format "%d" (nth 3 now)))) (string-to-number (read-string "Hour: " (format "%d" (nth 2 now)))) (string-to-number (read-string "Minutes: " (format "%d" (nth 1 now)))) (string-to-number (read-string "Seconds: " (format "%d" (nth 0 now))))))))) ad-do-it (if (interactive-p) (message "%s" ad-return-value) ad-return-value)) -- Kevin Rodgers