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From: jr@bbn.com (John Robinson)
Newsgroups: comp.emacs
Subject: Re: insert time/date and signature
Summary: time string should be accurate.
Message-ID: <29507@bbn.COM>
Date: 9 Sep 88 14:04:05 GMT
References: <29477@bbn.COM> <8809091320.AA10206@symbol.sunecd.com>
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In-reply-to: cdr@symbol.UUCP (Constantine Rasmussen - Sun ECD)

In article <8809091320.AA10206@symbol.sunecd.com>, cdr@symbol (Constantine Rasmussen - Sun ECD) writes:
>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.

When you call (current-time-string), it calls time() and ctime() [GNU,
version 18.51 does, anyway].  Any clock problems must by in Unix or
the Sun.
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