From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Kevin Rodgers Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: efficiently viewing Unix timestamps as dates Date: Thu, 16 Dec 2010 00:28:38 -0700 Message-ID: References: <87mxo9mvxm.fsf@lifelogs.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1292484707 1122 80.91.229.12 (16 Dec 2010 07:31:47 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 16 Dec 2010 07:31:47 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Dec 16 08:31:43 2010 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1PT8JR-0005y9-Lm for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 16 Dec 2010 08:31:41 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:53068 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1PT8JR-0005eg-6f for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 16 Dec 2010 02:31:41 -0500 Original-Received: from [140.186.70.92] (port=37004 helo=eggs.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1PT8Gm-0004hy-4e for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 16 Dec 2010 02:29:04 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1PT8Gh-00082x-HJ for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 16 Dec 2010 02:28:55 -0500 Original-Received: from lo.gmane.org ([80.91.229.12]:45595) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1PT8Gh-00082i-Bp for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 16 Dec 2010 02:28:51 -0500 Original-Received: from list by lo.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1PT8Gc-0004s6-KQ for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 16 Dec 2010 08:28:46 +0100 Original-Received: from c-24-8-96-241.hsd1.co.comcast.net ([24.8.96.241]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Thu, 16 Dec 2010 08:28:46 +0100 Original-Received: from kevin.d.rodgers by c-24-8-96-241.hsd1.co.comcast.net with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Thu, 16 Dec 2010 08:28:46 +0100 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-Lines: 19 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: c-24-8-96-241.hsd1.co.comcast.net User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; Intel Mac OS X 10.4; en-US; rv:1.9.2.13) Gecko/20101207 Thunderbird/3.1.7 In-Reply-To: <87mxo9mvxm.fsf@lifelogs.com> X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6 (newer, 3) X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:77580 Archived-At: On 12/13/10 10:20 AM, Ted Zlatanov wrote: > Is there a mode to view (not convert!) Unix timestamps as dates? What is a Unix timestamp, and how is it represented in Emacs Lisp (e.g. a number or string or some other data type, and in what format)? What is a date, and how is it represented in Emacs Lisp (i.e. a number or string or some other data type, and in what format)? > It needs to be efficient because these are large files on remote > systems, and they are read-only so I can't modify them. > > Ideally I would customize the time format and then turn this on as a > minor mode. So I thought I'd ask if this already exists before I start > coding :) -- Kevin Rodgers Denver, Colorado, USA