From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Paul Eggert Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel,gmane.comp.lib.gnulib.bugs Subject: gnulib strftime, Emacs, and nanosecond-resolution time stamps Date: Thu, 27 Jan 2011 12:50:30 -0800 Organization: UCLA Computer Science Department Message-ID: <4D41DA96.2090003@cs.ucla.edu> References: <4D2BA939.5090903@cs.ucla.edu> <4D34A88F.4080400@cs.ucla.edu> <4D35D842.5030003@cs.ucla.edu> <83wrlvztda.fsf@gnu.org> <4D3C91E2.3010007@cs.ucla.edu> <83fwsjymcw.fsf@gnu.org> <4D3E0FCE.9040908@cs.ucla.edu> <838vy7y8jz.fsf@gnu.org> <4D413962.4060603@cs.ucla.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1296205553 6299 80.91.229.12 (28 Jan 2011 09:05:53 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 28 Jan 2011 09:05:53 +0000 (UTC) Cc: bug-gnulib@gnu.org, emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Eli Zaretskii Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri Jan 28 10:05:49 2011 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@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 1PikH4-0001dW-7K for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 28 Jan 2011 10:05:46 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:46172 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Pijea-00018h-TN for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 28 Jan 2011 03:26:01 -0500 Original-Received: from [140.186.70.92] (port=55501 helo=eggs.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Piim5-0002pH-F3 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 28 Jan 2011 02:29:42 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Piim4-0000iT-Ev for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 28 Jan 2011 02:29:41 -0500 Original-Received: from smtp.cs.ucla.edu ([131.179.128.62]:35918) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Piilm-0000YS-Am; Fri, 28 Jan 2011 02:29:22 -0500 Original-Received: from localhost (localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) by smtp.cs.ucla.edu (Postfix) with ESMTP id CC88C39E80DF; Thu, 27 Jan 2011 12:50:31 -0800 (PST) X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at smtp.cs.ucla.edu Original-Received: from smtp.cs.ucla.edu ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (smtp.cs.ucla.edu [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id oEopff0-tTVk; Thu, 27 Jan 2011 12:50:31 -0800 (PST) Original-Received: from [131.179.64.200] (Penguin.CS.UCLA.EDU [131.179.64.200]) by smtp.cs.ucla.edu (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 205B339E80DB; Thu, 27 Jan 2011 12:50:31 -0800 (PST) User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.9.2.13) Gecko/20101208 Thunderbird/3.1.7 In-Reply-To: X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6 (newer, 3) X-Received-From: 131.179.128.62 X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:135135 gmane.comp.lib.gnulib.bugs:25057 Archived-At: [Renaming Subject: line from "Re: syncing Emacs from sources maintained elsewhere"]: On 01/27/11 01:55, Eli Zaretskii wrote: > Does gnulib's strftime support MinGW? I expect so, yes. >> Once it's in, Emacs's format-time-string function can start supporting >> higher-resolution time stamps. > > Is this enabled for MinGW as well? Yes, that's pretty much the same code in strftime, regardless of platform. There is another issue here: Emacs currently supports time stamp resolution only to the nearest microsecond. Gnulib supports nanosecond resolution, which will go unused inside Emacs's format-time-string function at first. At some point Emacs can be improved to support nanosecond-resolution time stamps, but that is a different task.