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Re: What do I use if not `float-time'?
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Juri Linkov |
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Re: What do I use if not `float-time'? |
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Wed, 06 Jan 2010 22:27:09 +0200 |
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>> Okay, so what do I use instead? I just want a "UNIX timestamp" as an
>> integer or string. What's the idiomatic way to get that?
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> Use `current-time'. The trick is that you then have to deal with multiple
> integers (because Emacs ints are (often) shorter than 32 bits).
Is a list of integers still necessary for 64-bit machines where
most-positive-fixnum is greater than the number of microseconds
since January 1, 1970.
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Juri Linkov
http://www.jurta.org/emacs/