From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Richard Stallman Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: lispref Timer section Date: Fri, 30 Mar 2007 17:22:09 -0400 Message-ID: References: <6l648jh5ju.fsf@fencepost.gnu.org> Reply-To: rms@gnu.org NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-15 X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1175289903 7854 80.91.229.12 (30 Mar 2007 21:25:03 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 30 Mar 2007 21:25:03 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Glenn Morris Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri Mar 30 23:24:57 2007 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 4.50) id 1HXOaf-00027N-8R for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 30 Mar 2007 23:24:57 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1HXOdO-0008NT-EC for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 30 Mar 2007 16:27:46 -0500 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1HXOcp-0007cv-Ep for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 30 Mar 2007 17:27:11 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1HXOcp-0007cC-1T for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 30 Mar 2007 17:27:11 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1HXOco-0007c0-QL for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 30 Mar 2007 16:27:10 -0500 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([199.232.76.164]) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1HXOa4-0006lN-Sk for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 30 Mar 2007 17:24:20 -0400 Original-Received: from rms by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1HXOXx-0000bf-4j; Fri, 30 Mar 2007 17:22:09 -0400 In-reply-to: <6l648jh5ju.fsf@fencepost.gnu.org> (message from Glenn Morris on Thu, 29 Mar 2007 21:40:53 -0400) X-detected-kernel: Linux 2.6, seldom 2.4 (older, 4) 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:68774 Archived-At: Do I misunderstand, or is the section "Timers for Delayed Execution" in the lispref totally misleading when it speaks about absolute values for TIME in run-at-time? It claims that "Absolute times may be specified in a wide variety of formats", but this seems false. It is supposed to be true, so I think this is a bug. When was it coded to use such a narrow range of formats?