Re: vc-next-action not behaving

[David Abrahams]

Andreas Schwab <address@hidden> writes:

> David Abrahams <address@hidden> writes:
>
>> Okay, emacs appears to have the right mtime, although I have to have a
>> strange reading of the file-attributes doc in order to see it that
>> way:
>>
>>  4. Last access time, as a list of two integers.
>>   First integer has high-order 16 bits of time, second has low 16 bits.
>>
>> It's (17046 2788)
>>
>> If that's really meant to be a 32-bit number and 17046 means 17:46,
>> there are some big gaps in numerical time. ;-)
>
> No.  The number is (+ (* 17046 65536) 2788), which is 1117129444, except
> that the number would not be representable as a Lisp_Integer on a 32-bit
> host.

So, it's just a lucky coincidence that I saw "17046" and 17:46 was the file's
modification time.  But then, why is it showing as 17:44 below?

> $ date -u -d @1117129444
> Do Mai 26 17:44:04 UTC 2005


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