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Christian Lemburg <lemburg@aixonix.de> writes:

>   "Convert emacs time format to seconds as one 32 bit integer."

It should be noted that integers are only 32-bit on 64-bit
platforms.  On most platforms, integers are 28-bit.

It's probably better to use time-add from time-date.el (included in
Gnus and thus in Emacs).

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