From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Thorsten Jolitz Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: How to compare time of last file modification? Date: Sun, 01 Jul 2012 22:26:25 +0200 Message-ID: <87ipe7qlce.fsf@googlemail.com> References: NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1341174244 11212 80.91.229.3 (1 Jul 2012 20:24:04 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 1 Jul 2012 20:24:04 +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 Jul 01 22:24:04 2012 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 1SlQgY-0005Ni-1c for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sun, 01 Jul 2012 22:23:58 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:36237 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1SlQgW-0001sO-Uu for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sun, 01 Jul 2012 16:23:56 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([208.118.235.92]:49419) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1SlQgO-0001rf-Ut for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sun, 01 Jul 2012 16:23:53 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1SlQgK-0008VP-EF for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sun, 01 Jul 2012 16:23:48 -0400 Original-Received: from plane.gmane.org ([80.91.229.3]:54361) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1SlQgK-0008VF-7W for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sun, 01 Jul 2012 16:23:44 -0400 Original-Received: from list by plane.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1SlQgJ-0004u5-2k for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sun, 01 Jul 2012 22:23:43 +0200 Original-Received: from e178117094.adsl.alicedsl.de ([85.178.117.94]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Sun, 01 Jul 2012 22:23:43 +0200 Original-Received: from tjolitz by e178117094.adsl.alicedsl.de with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Sun, 01 Jul 2012 22:23:43 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-Lines: 17 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: e178117094.adsl.alicedsl.de User-Agent: Gnus/5.130002 (Ma Gnus v0.2) Emacs/24.0.93 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:SByxzZlrPBfHrZRO8FXJlKN2ruo= X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Genre and OS details not recognized. X-Received-From: 80.91.229.3 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:85608 Archived-At: Barry Margolin writes: > In article , > Thorsten Jolitz wrote: > >> Is there a reason to prefer time-less-p or the custom-made solutions >> over file-newer-than-file-p? > > file-newer-than-file-p is only applicable when you're comparing two > files. If you're comparing a file's modification time to some other > time, then you need to use time-less-p. I see, thanks. -- cheers, Thorsten