Re: efficiently viewing Unix timestamps as dates

[Ted Zlatanov]

On Wed, 04 May 2011 12:32:34 -0300 Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca> 
wrote: 

>> That seems OK and backwards compatible.  But I don't know enough about
>> the internals to say how much work this will be; I would guess "a
>> lot" :)

SM> Actually, I really don't think this needs that much work.
SM> The change should be localized, and in code which is not tricky.

SM> It will probably introduce a few minor backward compatibility issues,
SM> mostly around the need to distinguish "get the merged value of property
SM> `foo'" and "get the value of property `foo' in the default plane".

Thanks for explaining.  I'll be first in line to test it with epoch-view.el.

Ted