Re: How to compare time of last file modification?

[Michael Albinus]

"Pascal J. Bourguignon" <pjb@informatimago.com> writes:

>     (defun time-lessp (t1 t2)
>       "Returns whether t1<t2
>     t1 and t2 are lists of two integers. The first integer has the
>     high-order 16 bits of time, the second has the low 16 bits."
>       (destructuring-bind (h1 l1) t1
>         (destructuring-bind (h2 l2) t2
>            (cond
>              ((< h1 h2) t)
>              ((> h1 h2) nil)
>              (t (cond ((< l1 l2) t)
>                       (t         nil)))))))

In Tramp, we use

(defun tramp-time-less-p (t1 t2)
  "Say whether time value T1 is less than time value T2."
  (unless t1 (setq t1 '(0 0)))
  (unless t2 (setq t2 '(0 0)))
  (or (< (car t1) (car t2))
      (and (= (car t1) (car t2))
           (< (nth 1 t1) (nth 1 t2)))))

Best regards, Michael.