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From: cdr@symbol.UUCP (Constantine Rasmussen - Sun ECD)
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Subject: Re: Re: insert time/date and signature
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Date: 9 Sep 88 13:20:01 GMT
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   Wayne Mesard writes:

   GNU Emacs has a (current-time-string) function.  (Like the spaghetti
   sauce commercials: "It's in der!")  So something like this might do the
   trick, without a subprocess:

I don't know about other folks but I've had real bad luck with emacs
updating its time string with something that was accurate.
Sorry, I haven't spent the time to look into where the problem was
comming from but it was off by as much as 10-15 minutes so I stopped
using it til I could debug it.  I was running 18.41 (on a Sun under
SunOS 3.2 on a 3/50 without clock problems) at the time.

I'll use (current-time-string) for a while and see how it goes.