From: ken <ken@cleveland.lug.net>
Cc: <help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: variables for yesterday and today
Date: Wed, 16 Oct 2002 10:05:13 -0400 (EDT) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.33.0210160949560.3479-100000@heidegger.mousecar.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87wuojhs5e.fsf@gentoo.shacknet.nu>
Spake foomaster1200 at 05:25 (UTC-0000) on Wed, 16 Oct 2002:
= ken <ken@cleveland.lug.net> writes:
=
= > Yes, that's much better. But it occurs to me also that this always
= > resolves to 65536. So why not just use the constant and save processing
= > time? The answer is that this would cause an overflow.
=
= Because I wanted to make it plainly obvious how it works.
= ...
And this is good practice... much appreciated. It was mentioned just to
see if the group saw any possible holes in my thinking in the logic.
Documentation in the code's comments could accomplish this also, while
still producing faster code. Different strokes, I guess.
Upon testing the function (the slightly revised version of it) I found
that it doesn't actually return yesterday's date (i.e., yesterday's
current-time), but rather tomorrow's. So how would we alter this to get
yesterday's?
(defun yesterday-time ()
(let ((1day-lsw (% 86400 (lsh 1 16)))
(1day-msw (/ 86400 (lsh 1 16)))
(now (current-time)))
(list
(+ (car now) 1day-msw)
(+ (car (cdr now)) 1day-lsw)
(car (cdr (cdr now))))))
Thanks very much,
ken
--
AMD crashes? See http://cleveland.lug.net/~ken/amd-problem/.
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2002-10-15 6:52 ` variables for yesterday and today foomaster1200
2002-10-15 15:15 ` ken
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2002-10-15 16:05 ` Daniel Jensen
2002-10-15 17:38 ` ken
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2002-10-16 5:25 ` foomaster1200
2002-10-16 14:05 ` ken [this message]
2002-10-14 18:39 ken
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