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From: Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>, Philipp Stephani <p.stephani2@gmail.com>
Cc: phst@google.com, emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Add a new function to convert a time value to the canonical format.
Date: Tue, 23 Apr 2019 09:20:34 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <70396a58-87ba-b7bd-e555-80ee2a7aebb2@cs.ucla.edu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <83lg00502c.fsf@gnu.org>

On 4/23/19 6:21 AM, Eli Zaretskii wrote:
> No need to apologize.
>
> How about a patch for the ELisp manual to mention this use case?

The manual already says this:

You can convert a time value into
a human-readable string using @code{format-time-string}, into a Lisp
timestamp using @code{encode-time}, and into other forms using
@code{decode-time} and @code{float-time}.




  reply	other threads:[~2019-04-23 16:20 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2019-04-23 12:46 [PATCH] Add a new function to convert a time value to the canonical format Philipp Stephani
2019-04-23 13:11 ` Eli Zaretskii
2019-04-23 13:13   ` Philipp Stephani
2019-04-23 13:21     ` Eli Zaretskii
2019-04-23 16:20       ` Paul Eggert [this message]
2019-04-23 17:11         ` Eli Zaretskii

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