From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Eli Zaretskii Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Minibuffer tray to display current time and date Date: Sun, 26 Apr 2015 19:05:03 +0300 Message-ID: <83zj5ux4cw.fsf@gnu.org> References: <874mo6bgzx.fsf@debian.uxu> <20150424141319.GA19093@tuxteam.de> <831tj9zizy.fsf@gnu.org> <87ioclo9p5.fsf@yale.edu> <83wq11xyiu.fsf@gnu.org> <87h9s3havb.fsf@yale.edu> <83bnibx7wy.fsf@gnu.org> <20150426155236.GA16838@tuxteam.de> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1430064418 459 80.91.229.3 (26 Apr 2015 16:06:58 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 26 Apr 2015 16:06:58 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sun Apr 26 18:06:49 2015 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1YmP4z-0006Rx-84 for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sun, 26 Apr 2015 18:06:49 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:51326 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1YmP4x-0008Vh-O0 for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sun, 26 Apr 2015 12:06:47 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:50334) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1YmP4l-0008NG-AP for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sun, 26 Apr 2015 12:06:38 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1YmP3Y-0001JK-4n for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sun, 26 Apr 2015 12:05:23 -0400 Original-Received: from mtaout22.012.net.il ([80.179.55.172]:63603) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1YmP3X-0001JC-TA for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sun, 26 Apr 2015 12:05:20 -0400 Original-Received: from conversion-daemon.a-mtaout22.012.net.il by a-mtaout22.012.net.il (HyperSendmail v2007.08) id <0NNF00400898OR00@a-mtaout22.012.net.il> for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sun, 26 Apr 2015 19:05:15 +0300 (IDT) Original-Received: from HOME-C4E4A596F7 ([87.69.4.28]) by a-mtaout22.012.net.il (HyperSendmail v2007.08) with ESMTPA id <0NNF0049R8OQB8B0@a-mtaout22.012.net.il> for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sun, 26 Apr 2015 19:05:15 +0300 (IDT) In-reply-to: <20150426155236.GA16838@tuxteam.de> X-012-Sender: halo1@inter.net.il X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Solaris 10 X-Received-From: 80.179.55.172 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:104005 Archived-At: > Date: Sun, 26 Apr 2015 17:52:36 +0200 > Cc: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org > From: > > On Sun, Apr 26, 2015 at 05:48:13PM +0300, Eli Zaretskii wrote: > > > It's not a problem with system load, it's a problem with _when_ within > > the minute does the timer run. Scheduling it to run every 60 sec > > doesn't guarantee that it will run exactly when the minutes advance. > > So, if you are unlucky, your time shown in the echo area can be 59 sec > > late. > > I'd expected that a first argument of t for run-at-time would take care > of that. Only if you have a single timer that needs to run at that time. And what are the chances of that in any decent Emacs session?