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From: Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen <lmi@gnus.org>
To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: How to compare time of last file modification?
Date: Sun, 01 Jul 2012 23:11:51 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <m3sjdb2nl4.fsf@stories.gnus.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 877guno036.fsf@kuiper.lan.informatimago.com

"Pascal J. Bourguignon" <pjb@informatimago.com> writes:

> file-newer-than-file-p use the OS provided m_time types to compare.
> time-less-p uses a 1-second resolution, 32-bit representation of time.

No, `time-less-p' (now) uses the resolution that the OS exposes to
Emacs, which, on most OS-es, is a lot more fine-grained than 1 second.

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  reply	other threads:[~2012-07-01 21:11 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
     [not found] <mailman.3790.1341102956.855.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2012-07-01  1:16 ` How to compare time of last file modification? Pascal J. Bourguignon
2012-07-01  8:56   ` Thorsten Jolitz
2012-07-01  9:23   ` Michael Albinus
2012-07-01 10:13 ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
2012-07-01 17:26   ` Thorsten Jolitz
     [not found]   ` <mailman.3833.1341163416.855.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2012-07-01 17:36     ` Pascal J. Bourguignon
2012-07-01 21:11       ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen [this message]
2012-07-01 19:48     ` Barry Margolin
2012-07-01 20:26       ` Thorsten Jolitz
2012-07-01  0:38 Thorsten Jolitz
2012-07-01  0:41 ` Thorsten Jolitz

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