Re: What do I use if not `float-time'?

[Stephen J. Turnbull]

Juri Linkov writes:
 > >> 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?
 > >
 > > 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.

Yes, because the API is defined that way.  You could rewrite callers
to check whether it's just an integer or a list, but why bother?  This
is not called that often.