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Toby Speight <Toby.Speight@streapadair.freeserve.co.uk> writes:

> (current-time)
> => (14218 11870 732000)
> (current-time-string '(14218 11870 732000))
> => "Mon Jul 12 19:05:18 1999"
> 
> That's local time for me, too (on NT).  What I'm not sure about is
> whether the representation of (current-time) is the same on both
> platforms; it's possible that it is seconds-after-local-epoch on one
> platform and seconds-after-UT-epoch on the other.  If
> (current-time-string) matches, you'd only see the difference if (a)
> you transfer numeric times between the platforms or (b) you build a
> numeric time from something other than (current-time).  We're doing
> (b).  Just a theory.  Can you report what (current-time-string '(14218
> 11870 732000)) gives you?

(current-time-string '(14218 11870 732000))
=> "Mon Jul 12 20:05:18 1999"

Ick.

> P.S. Lars, could you report this to the Emacs bug team?  Ta.  I guess
> you'd better include the associated documentation bug (what zone is
> the epoch?), too.

Uhm, ah...  I forget.

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