GNU bug report logs - #10876
Please mention format-time-string in "Time of Day"

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Package: emacs;

Reported by: Lennart Borgman <lennart.borgman <at> gmail.com>

Date: Fri, 24 Feb 2012 02:22:01 UTC

Severity: minor

Done: Chong Yidong <cyd <at> gnu.org>

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From: Chong Yidong <cyd <at> gnu.org>
To: Lennart Borgman <lennart.borgman <at> gmail.com>
Cc: 10876 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#10876: Please mention format-time-string in "Time of Day"
Date: Sat, 17 Mar 2012 22:00:29 +0800
Lennart Borgman <lennart.borgman <at> gmail.com> writes:

> format-time-string is similar to current-time-string, but more
> flexible. So they should probably be mentioned in the same place.
>
> However maybe a better suggestion is to move current-time-string to
> "39.7 Parsing and Formatting Times" and add a link to 39.7 from 39.5?
> (Actually I think the whole part about "date and time" should be a
> little bit reorganized. Having a heading "Date and Time" (instead of
> "Time of Day") and subheadings for "Time Conversion" and "Time
> Parsing" looks better to me.)

I have tweaked the text to make the connection clearer.




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