Re: regexp to match formatted time string?

[Miles Bader <miles@gnu.org>]

"Drew Adams" <drew.adams@oracle.com> writes:
> Anyone have a function that takes, as its argument, a string that is
> acceptable as input to `format-time-string' (i.e. a value like
> `display-time-format'), and returns a regexp that will match all such
> formatted times, that is, whatever `format-time-string' would return for the
> same input, for any time?

It does sound kind of useful, but wouldn't it be rather hard for some of
the formats format-time-string supports -- e.g., %c, %a, or %b?

Maybe that doesn't matter for the typical uses of such a function...
(formats embedded in a file being font-locked would tend to be more
portable ones, perhaps)

-Miles

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