From: Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org>
To: david@adboyd.com (J. David Boyd)
Cc: 5823@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#5823: run-at-time and Setting system time
Date: Sun, 18 Sep 2011 22:02:39 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <m3wrd58vq8.fsf@stories.gnus.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <e8rbpe13gek.fsf@FLM000025LVE9F.catmktg.com> (J. David Boyd's message of "Fri, 02 Apr 2010 13:36:51 -0400")
david@adboyd.com (J. David Boyd) writes:
>> (defun mwnn-timer-callback ()
>> (message "Hi, inside mwnn-timer-callback"))
>>
>> (run-at-time "60" nil 'mwnn-timer-callback)
>>
>> The above code is supposed to cause mwnn-timer-callback to get invoked
>> after 60 seconds. But if the system time is changed to a future date
>> (say 20 seconds after the timer is started) the timer fires
>> immediately.
>>
>> Is this is a bug in the emacs code. If yes, can this be rectified?
>>
>> Regards,
>> mwnn
>
> It sounds like a good thing to me.
>
> Say the time is 13:00, and you do what you said. You told the machine
> to give an invocation at 13:01.
>
> If you move the clock ahead, the code _should_ run, as it is now past
> 13:01.
Yes, I don't think this is a bug, so I'm closing this report.
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2011-09-18 20:02 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-04-02 6:59 run-at-time and Setting system time chandan
2010-04-02 17:36 ` J. David Boyd
2011-09-18 20:02 ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen [this message]
2010-04-02 17:40 ` bug#5822: " Eli Zaretskii
2010-04-02 17:40 ` Eli Zaretskii
2009-04-05 3:44 ` chandan
2010-04-02 18:55 ` Glenn Morris
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