GNU bug report logs - #4436
time-stamp funcs to be removed but didn't

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Message #5 received at submit <at> emacsbugs.donarmstrong.com (full text, mbox):

From: MON KEY <monkey <at> sandpframing.com>
To: bug-gnu-emacs <at> gnu.org
Subject: time-stamp funcs to be removed but didn't
Date: Mon, 14 Sep 2009 15:47:40 -0400

As of (at least) 23.09.1 there is a comment in in /lisp/time-stamp.el

,----
| ;;; These functions have been obsolete since 1995
| ;;; and will be removed in Emacs 23.
| ;;; Meanwhile, discourage other packages from using them.
`----

`time-stamp-month-dd-yyyy'
`time-stamp-mon-dd-yyyy'
`time-stamp-yy/mm/dd'
`time-stamp-yyyy-mm-dd'
`time-stamp-hh:mm:ss'
`time-stamp-dd/mm/yyyy'
`time-stamp-dd-mon-yy'
`time-stamp-yyyy/mm/dd'
`time-stamp-yymmdd'
`time-stamp-hhmm'

_Will_ these functions be removed?
Or are these simply perpetually deprecated :)

s_P

Message #10 received at 4436-done <at> emacsbugs.donarmstrong.com (full text, mbox):

From: Chong Yidong <cyd <at> stupidchicken.com>
To: MON KEY <monkey <at> sandpframing.com>
Cc: 4436-done <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: time-stamp funcs to be removed but didn't
Date: Sat, 19 Sep 2009 15:46:40 -0400

> As of (at least) 23.09.1 there is a comment in in /lisp/time-stamp.el

> ,----
> | ;;; These functions have been obsolete since 1995
> | ;;; and will be removed in Emacs 23.
> | ;;; Meanwhile, discourage other packages from using them.
> `----

Hmm, I wish we'd removed it in 23.1; that would have been a better time
to do that.  Still, I doubt anyone's still using these; I've gone ahead
and removed them in the trunk (23.2).  Thanks.

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