From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Drew Adams Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.bugs Subject: bug#25112: 24.5; function to encode time from time string Date: Sun, 4 Dec 2016 13:50:13 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: References: <5b95d9b8-3281-40da-872d-1a98b8a3d1fa@default> NNTP-Posting-Host: blaine.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Trace: blaine.gmane.org 1480888275 17107 195.159.176.226 (4 Dec 2016 21:51:15 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@blaine.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 4 Dec 2016 21:51:15 +0000 (UTC) To: 25112@debbugs.gnu.org Original-X-From: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sun Dec 04 22:51:11 2016 Return-path: Envelope-to: geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by blaine.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1cDegg-0003jO-Pf for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sun, 04 Dec 2016 22:51:10 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:35806 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1cDegk-0002IL-Su for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sun, 04 Dec 2016 16:51:14 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:41802) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1cDegc-0002I0-Vp for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sun, 04 Dec 2016 16:51:09 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1cDegY-0007EG-0J for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sun, 04 Dec 2016 16:51:07 -0500 Original-Received: from debbugs.gnu.org ([208.118.235.43]:40818) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.0:RSA_AES_128_CBC_SHA1:16) (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1cDegX-0007E8-TL for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sun, 04 Dec 2016 16:51:01 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-debbugs by debbugs.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1cDegX-0001tI-Mn for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sun, 04 Dec 2016 16:51:01 -0500 X-Loop: help-debbugs@gnu.org Resent-From: Drew Adams Original-Sender: "Debbugs-submit" Resent-CC: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Resent-Date: Sun, 04 Dec 2016 21:51:01 +0000 Resent-Message-ID: Resent-Sender: help-debbugs@gnu.org X-GNU-PR-Message: followup 25112 X-GNU-PR-Package: emacs X-GNU-PR-Keywords: Original-Received: via spool by 25112-submit@debbugs.gnu.org id=B25112.14808882247222 (code B ref 25112); Sun, 04 Dec 2016 21:51:01 +0000 Original-Received: (at 25112) by debbugs.gnu.org; 4 Dec 2016 21:50:24 +0000 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:56217 helo=debbugs.gnu.org) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1cDefv-0001sQ-Qy for submit@debbugs.gnu.org; Sun, 04 Dec 2016 16:50:24 -0500 Original-Received: from userp1040.oracle.com ([156.151.31.81]:46050) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1cDeft-0001sD-F4 for 25112@debbugs.gnu.org; Sun, 04 Dec 2016 16:50:22 -0500 Original-Received: from userv0021.oracle.com (userv0021.oracle.com [156.151.31.71]) by userp1040.oracle.com (Sentrion-MTA-4.3.2/Sentrion-MTA-4.3.2) with ESMTP id uB4LoFuq012782 (version=TLSv1.2 cipher=ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 bits=256 verify=OK) for <25112@debbugs.gnu.org>; Sun, 4 Dec 2016 21:50:15 GMT Original-Received: from aserv0121.oracle.com (aserv0121.oracle.com [141.146.126.235]) by userv0021.oracle.com (8.14.4/8.14.4) with ESMTP id uB4LoExK030591 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=OK) for <25112@debbugs.gnu.org>; Sun, 4 Dec 2016 21:50:15 GMT Original-Received: from abhmp0003.oracle.com (abhmp0003.oracle.com [141.146.116.9]) by aserv0121.oracle.com (8.13.8/8.13.8) with ESMTP id uB4LoCPM016671 for <25112@debbugs.gnu.org>; Sun, 4 Dec 2016 21:50:13 GMT In-Reply-To: <5b95d9b8-3281-40da-872d-1a98b8a3d1fa@default> X-Priority: 3 X-Mailer: Oracle Beehive Extensions for Outlook 2.0.1.9.1 (1003210) [OL 12.0.6753.5000 (x86)] X-Source-IP: userv0021.oracle.com [156.151.31.71] X-BeenThere: debbugs-submit@debbugs.gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.18 Precedence: list X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.2.x-3.x [generic] X-Received-From: 208.118.235.43 X-BeenThere: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org List-Id: "Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors" List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "bug-gnu-emacs" Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.bugs:126482 Archived-At: FYI, I just now came across this library on Emacs Wiki: https://www.emacswiki.org/emacs/strptime.el It seems to have something similar to the requested enhancement. It is not something that I can use, and it is no replacement for the enhancement, but it might help. The copyright for it is by A. Aichner of XEmacs. The library description is this: partial implementation of POSIX date and time parsing Implemented (partially, specifically without locale support) according to http://www.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/009695399/functions/strptime.html The main function (command) it provides is this: (defun strptime (time format &optional extended) "Return a nine element list of TIME, parsed according to FORMAT..."