bug#55163: 29.0.50; master 4a1f69ebca (TICKS . HZ) for current-time broke lsp-mode

[Lars Ingebrigtsen]

Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu> writes:

> Yes, I came to pretty much the same conclusion. I installed the
> attached patch to revert the effect of the change. Instead, this patch
> adds a new variable current-time-list that lets you try out the new
> timestamp behavior, with the default being the longstanding behavior.

Thanks; makes sense to me.  And it was worth a try to modernise these
functions, but it doesn't seem like the world is ready yet (and it's
hard to see a practical way forward without deprecating all the current
time-related functions and creating new ones, which we probably don't
want to do).

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