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Re: efficiently viewing Unix timestamps as dates
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Ted Zlatanov |
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Re: efficiently viewing Unix timestamps as dates |
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Thu, 16 Dec 2010 13:26:05 -0600 |
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On Thu, 16 Dec 2010 00:28:38 -0700 Kevin Rodgers <kevin.d.rodgers@gmail.com>
wrote:
KR> On 12/13/10 10:20 AM, Ted Zlatanov wrote:
>> Is there a mode to view (not convert!) Unix timestamps as dates?
KR> What is a Unix timestamp, and how is it represented in Emacs Lisp (e.g. a
KR> number or string or some other data type, and in what format)?
It's the number of seconds since the epoch, e.g.
date '+%s'
or `M-x current-time' if you combine the first two integers, or
`M-x float-time' if you round it. Right now that's 1292527019 in
decimal.
KR> What is a date, and how is it represented in Emacs Lisp (i.e. a number or
KR> string or some other data type, and in what format)?
The Unix timestamp can be converted to a visual date with
`format-time-string', e.g.
M-: (format-time-string "%F %T" (current-time))
but the actual format string should be up to the user. Really, my
question is "how do I find numbers that look like 1292527019, run a
function on them, and then show the results of that function overlaid on
top of the number without actually changing it in the buffer?"
Thanks
Ted
- efficiently viewing Unix timestamps as dates, Ted Zlatanov, 2010/12/13
- Re: efficiently viewing Unix timestamps as dates, Kevin Rodgers, 2010/12/16
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- Re: efficiently viewing Unix timestamps as dates, Burton Samograd, 2010/12/16
- Re: efficiently viewing Unix timestamps as dates, PJ Weisberg, 2010/12/16
- Re: efficiently viewing Unix timestamps as dates, Stefan Monnier, 2010/12/16
- Re: efficiently viewing Unix timestamps as dates, Ted Zlatanov, 2010/12/16
- Re: efficiently viewing Unix timestamps as dates, Stefan Monnier, 2010/12/16
- Re: efficiently viewing Unix timestamps as dates, Eli Zaretskii, 2010/12/17
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- Re: efficiently viewing Unix timestamps as dates, Ted Zlatanov, 2010/12/17