time conversion

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From: Eliot Moss
Date: Thu, 03 Jan 1991 16:08

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While I'm at it, it seems kind of silly and annoying that Emacs does not
provide a built-in function to convert the 32-bit time quantities returned by
file-attributes (as two 16-bit numbers actually) to human readable times.
Since current-time-string assumes the ability to make such conversions, why
not provide a function that will call ctime appropriately and return the
string?
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		J. Eliot B. Moss, Assistant Professor
		Department of Computer and Information Science
		Lederle Graduate Research Center
		University of Massachusetts
		Amherst, MA  01003
		(413) 545-4206; Moss@cs.umass.edu

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