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

From: Eli Zaretskii <[email-masked]>
Date: Fri, 29 Apr 2022 14:10:20 +0300

> From: Lars Ingebrigtsen <[email-masked]>
> Cc: [email-masked],  [email-masked],  [email-masked]
> Date: Fri, 29 Apr 2022 12:59:39 +0200
> 
> Eli Zaretskii <[email-masked]> writes:
> 
> > I don't understand how this is related to making the time rfesolution
> > explicit in time objects.  The main problem in that area wa how we can
> > know the resolution of each timestamp, not how to expose that to Lisp.
> >
> > In the particular example you mention, how can Emacs know what is the
> > resolution of a file's last modification time?
> >
> > What did I miss?
> 
> This isn't related to that at all (except tangentially).

Then why again would we want to come up with new functions for
handling timestamps? just because the existing ones have names that
make discovery difficult, or are there other reasons?