Re: windows build failure

[Sean Sieger]

Eli Zaretskii <address@hidden> writes:

    current-time-string is trivial: just call it, and see that the value
    is reasonable.

GNU Emacs 24.3.50.1 (i686-pc-mingw32) of 2013-10-14 on 3249CTO:

(current-time-string) -> "Mon Oct 14 14:46:48 2013"

    format-time-string is not much harder, see its doc string.

(format-time-string "%Y%m%d %T") -> "20131014 14:58:43"

    decode-time can be tested by passing it what current-time returns, and
    also the time-related info from file-attributes.

(current-time) -> (21084 15790 948000 0)

How to use that with:

(decode-time)?

    encode-time can be tested by passing it the result of decode-time.

    In each case, please compare with the results of some older binary of
    Emacs, as the differences could be subtle.

GNU Emacs 24.3.50.1 (i686-pc-mingw32) of 2013-10-09 on 3249CTO:

(current-time-string) -> "Mon Oct 14 15:00:29 2013"
(format-time-string "%Y%m%d %T") -> "20131014 15:00:35"
(current-time) -> (21084 16293 20000 0)

    Thanks.