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authorPaul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>2012-06-22 14:17:42 -0700
committerPaul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>2012-06-22 14:17:42 -0700
commitd35af63cd671563fd188c3b0a1ef30067027c7aa (patch)
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downloademacs-d35af63cd671563fd188c3b0a1ef30067027c7aa.tar.gz
Support higher-resolution time stamps.
Fixes: debbugs:9000
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diff --git a/etc/ChangeLog b/etc/ChangeLog
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+2012-06-22 Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
+
+ Support higher-resolution time stamps (Bug#9000).
+ * NEWS: Mention addition of picoseconds to time stamp format.
+
2012-06-13 Deniz Dogan <deniz@dogan.se>
* tutorials/TUTORIAL.sv: Fix grammar and a couple of typos.
diff --git a/etc/NEWS b/etc/NEWS
index 82c2660a3c7..054700352af 100644
--- a/etc/NEWS
+++ b/etc/NEWS
@@ -64,6 +64,13 @@ been adding them there, put them somewhere else, eg site-lisp.
* Changes in Emacs 24.2
+** The function `current-time' now returns extended-format time stamps
+(HIGH LOW USEC PSEC) that use picosecond resolution; the PSEC
+component is new. PSEC is typically a multiple of 1000 on current
+machines. Other functions that use this format, such as
+file-attributes and format-time-string, have been changed accordingly.
+Old-format time stamps are still accepted.
+
** New functions `system-users', `system-groups' return lists of the user
name, group names known to the system (where possible).