bug#4637: marked as done (23.1; (elisp)Time of Day doc)

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has caused the Emacs bug report #4637,
regarding 23.1; (elisp)Time of Day doc
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> 23.1; (elisp)Time of Day doc
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> Sun, 4 Oct 2009 17:46:21 -0700
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> The doc for `current-time-string', `current-time-zone', and
> `float-time' says the "argument should be a list whose first two
> elements are integers."
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> This says nothing about the rest of the list. Does it mean that the
> rest is ignored and could be anything (any number of elements of any
> types)? If so, please state that clearly.
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> Or should we rather be saying that the argument has the same form as
> what is returned by either `current-time' or `file-attributes' (for a
> time attribute), both of which are described in detail?
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> IOW, is it any list of at least two numbers, with the elements past #2
> being ignored, or is it a list of either two or three numbers? In the
> latter case, if three numbers, is the third number (microsecs) used or
> ignored? This is not clear, and the doc strings do not clear it up.
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> Also, there are 4 occurrences of the term `file-attributes', but only
> three of them are followed by a cross reference to node `Definition of
> file-attributes'. Either all four should have the cross reference or
> we should include only one cross reference for the whole node.
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> In GNU Emacs 23.1.1 (i386-mingw-nt5.1.2600)
>  of 2009-07-29 on SOFT-MJASON
> Windowing system distributor `Microsoft Corp.', version 5.1.2600
> configured using `configure --with-gcc (4.4)'
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> Re: 23.1; (elisp)Time of Day doc
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> Thu, 15 Oct 2009 16:45:39 -0400
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> > The doc for `current-time-string', `current-time-zone', and
> > `float-time' says the "argument should be a list whose first two
> > elements are integers."
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> > This says nothing about the rest of the list. Does it mean that the
> > rest is ignored and could be anything (any number of elements of any
> > types)? If so, please state that clearly.
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> The microseconds part is ignored.  I've checked in a clarification;
> thanks.
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