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From: Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen <lmi@gnus.org>
To: Thorsten Jolitz <tjolitz@googlemail.com>
Cc: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: How to compare time of last file modification?
Date: Sun, 01 Jul 2012 12:13:44 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <m3vci7ss9z.fsf@stories.gnus.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <mailman.3790.1341102956.855.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org> (Thorsten Jolitz's message of "Sun, 01 Jul 2012 02:38:27 +0200")

Thorsten Jolitz <tjolitz@googlemail.com> writes:

> If I want to compare the time of last modification of two files - how do
> I do that, using these two integers? 

Use `time-less-p':

time-less-p is a compiled Lisp function in `time-date.el'.

(time-less-p T1 T2)

Return non-nil if time value T1 is earlier than time value T2.

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  parent reply	other threads:[~2012-07-01 10:13 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
     [not found] <mailman.3790.1341102956.855.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2012-07-01  1:16 ` How to compare time of last file modification? Pascal J. Bourguignon
2012-07-01  8:56   ` Thorsten Jolitz
2012-07-01  9:23   ` Michael Albinus
2012-07-01 10:13 ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen [this message]
2012-07-01 17:26   ` Thorsten Jolitz
     [not found]   ` <mailman.3833.1341163416.855.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2012-07-01 17:36     ` Pascal J. Bourguignon
2012-07-01 21:11       ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
2012-07-01 19:48     ` Barry Margolin
2012-07-01 20:26       ` Thorsten Jolitz
2012-07-01  0:38 Thorsten Jolitz
2012-07-01  0:41 ` Thorsten Jolitz

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