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From: karl@haddock.ima.isc.com (Karl Heuer)
Newsgroups: comp.emacs
Subject: Re: insert time/date and signature
Message-ID: <7243@haddock.ima.isc.com>
Date: 9 Sep 88 20:37:14 GMT
References: <8809081924.AA09732@symbol.sunecd.com> <29477@bbn.COM>
Reply-To: karl@haddock.ima.isc.com (Karl Heuer)
Organization: Interactive Systems, Boston
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In article <29477@bbn.COM> mesard@bbn.com (Wayne Mesard) writes:
>GNU Emacs has a (current-time-string) function. ...
>This has the disadvantage of outputting the time in that bizarre
>ctime(3) format.  But it would be trivial to add some "substring" calls
>to get it to do the right thing.

It would be better yet if, instead of having to reverse-engineer the string
format, we could just invoke an elisp equivalent to localtime() (probably
returning a nine-element list of integers, or maybe eight integers and a
boolean).  It shouldn't be too hard to add this.

Karl W. Z. Heuer (ima!haddock!karl or karl@haddock.isc.com), The Walking Lint