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David Moore <dmoore@UCSD.EDU> writes:

> 	Yeah, that might be nice, or more generally provide you with a
> format for displaying article times.

I've now added your new variable and code to Red Gnus 0.81.

> Proposed changed interface to format-time-string:
> 
> format-time-string: (FORMAT-STRING TIME &optional ZONE)
>   -- a built-in function.
> Use FORMAT-STRING to format the time TIME.
> TIME is specified as (HIGH LOW . IGNORED) or (HIGH . LOW), as from
> `current-time' and `file-attributes'.
> FORMAT-STRING may contain %-sequences to substitute parts of the time.
> ZONE defaults to the current time zone rule.  This can be a string
> (as from `set-time-zone-rule'), or it can be a list
> (as from `current-time-zone'), or an integer (as from `decode-time')
> applied without consideration for daylight savings time, or it can be
> T which specifies the time is a delta rather than a true time.
> 
> 	I would like to see this, or equivalent functionality, in
> xemacs (and gnu emacs), and I'm quite willing to code it, if there is a
> consensus on how it should be done.

Hm...  I think using a t value for a delta seems a bit kludgy.
Perhaps we should just have a different function?

-- 
(domestic pets only, the antidote for overdose, milk.)
  larsi@ifi.uio.no * Lars Ingebrigtsen