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From: | Paul Eggert |
Subject: | Re: 27.0.60; Asymmetry between (days-to-time) and (time-to-days) |
Date: | Tue, 24 Mar 2020 09:51:33 -0700 |
User-agent: | Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:68.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/68.4.1 |
On 3/24/20 2:18 AM, Kevin Liu wrote:
The asymmetry between (days-to-time) and (time-to-days) is quite surprising: (format-time-string "%Y" (days-to-time (time-to-days (current-time)))) "3989"
Even if time-to-days and days-to-time were inverses, this usage would be dubious since the conversion back and forth would discard the fractional date and that could cause format-time-string to do the wrong thing when the timestamp was near a year boundary in a non-UTC timezone.
It's probably unrealistic that any existing behavior be changed, but it would at least be nice to have a builtin function that is the inverse of (time-to-days).
We could add an optional argument to days-to-time; if it's t then days-to-time could add 719162 to its argument before converting (or whatever the magic number happens to be; I didn't check this).
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