From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: chandan Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.bugs,gmane.emacs.help Subject: bug#5822: run-at-time and Setting system time Date: Sun, 05 Apr 2009 09:14:35 +0530 Message-ID: <49D82923.7010801@globaledgesoft.com> References: <4BB595DE.1070306@globaledgesoft.com> <83aatlwy5x.fsf@gnu.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1270439770 29057 80.91.229.12 (5 Apr 2010 03:56:10 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 5 Apr 2010 03:56:10 +0000 (UTC) Cc: 5822@debbugs.gnu.org, help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org To: Eli Zaretskii Original-X-From: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon Apr 05 05:56:06 2010 Return-path: Envelope-to: geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1NydPx-0002DI-JM for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Mon, 05 Apr 2010 05:56:05 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:52344 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1NydPx-0003AY-54 for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sun, 04 Apr 2010 23:56:05 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1NydPs-0003AS-E6 for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sun, 04 Apr 2010 23:56:00 -0400 Original-Received: from [140.186.70.92] (port=60549 helo=eggs.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1NydPr-0003AJ-7T for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sun, 04 Apr 2010 23:56:00 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1NydPp-0006dM-Su for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sun, 04 Apr 2010 23:55:59 -0400 Original-Received: from debbugs.gnu.org ([140.186.70.43]:45375) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1NydPp-0006dI-RT for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sun, 04 Apr 2010 23:55:57 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-debbugs by debbugs.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1NydEI-0004HV-0p; Sun, 04 Apr 2010 23:44:02 -0400 X-Loop: help-debbugs@gnu.org Resent-From: chandan Original-Sender: debbugs-submit-bounces@debbugs.gnu.org Resent-To: owner@debbugs.gnu.org Resent-CC: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Resent-Date: Mon, 05 Apr 2010 03:44:01 +0000 Resent-Message-ID: Resent-Sender: help-debbugs@gnu.org X-GNU-PR-Message: followup 5822 X-GNU-PR-Package: emacs X-GNU-PR-Keywords: Original-Received: via spool by 5822-submit@debbugs.gnu.org id=B5822.127043900916450 (code B ref 5822); Mon, 05 Apr 2010 03:44:01 +0000 Original-Received: (at 5822) by debbugs.gnu.org; 5 Apr 2010 03:43:29 +0000 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=debbugs.gnu.org) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1NydDk-0004HH-Ed for submit@debbugs.gnu.org; Sun, 04 Apr 2010 23:43:28 -0400 Original-Received: from gesmail.globaledgesoft.com ([203.76.137.4]) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1NydDi-0004HC-5M for 5822@debbugs.gnu.org; Sun, 04 Apr 2010 23:43:26 -0400 Original-Received: from [172.16.8.243] (unknown [172.16.8.243]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by gesmail.globaledgesoft.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0DC0C17B422; Mon, 5 Apr 2010 09:13:21 +0530 (IST) User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.22 (X11/20090605) In-Reply-To: <83aatlwy5x.fsf@gnu.org> X-BeenThere: debbugs-submit@debbugs.gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.11 Precedence: list Resent-Date: Sun, 04 Apr 2010 23:44:02 -0400 X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6 (newer, 3) X-BeenThere: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org List-Id: "Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors" List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.bugs:35937 gmane.emacs.help:72597 Archived-At: Eli Zaretskii wrote: >> Date: Fri, 02 Apr 2010 12:29:42 +0530 >> From: chandan >> Cc: >> >> (defun mwnn-timer-callback () >> (message "Hi, inside mwnn-timer-callback")) >> >> (run-at-time "60" nil 'mwnn-timer-callback) >> >> The above code is supposed to cause mwnn-timer-callback to get invoked >> after 60 seconds. But if the system time is changed to a future date >> (say 20 seconds after the timer is started) the timer fires immediately. >> >> Is this is a bug in the emacs code. If yes, can this be rectified? >> > > I think this how the timers are supposed to behave. They are not > interval timers, if that's what you expected. > > Emacs seems to use setitimer & getitimer (interval timers) for implementing the timer module. This may be the cause of the problem. Using timer_create, timer_delete, timer_settime, timer_gettime etc.