Re: encode-time vs decode-time

[Eli Zaretskii]

> Cc: address@hidden, address@hidden, address@hidden
> From: Paul Eggert <address@hidden>
> Date: Tue, 6 Aug 2019 08:59:33 -0700
> 
> They only significant backward-compatibility issue I see is in the 2nd patch 
> ("decode-time now returns subsec too"), which affects any user code that 
> requires (= 9 (length (decode-time))). I originally proposed extending 
> decode-time's API with a FORM option 
> <https://lists.gnu.org/r/emacs-devel/2019-07/msg00750.html> that would cause 
> decode-time to continue to behave as before unlless the given the new FORM 
> argument; this would default to current behavior and so would avoid the 
> backward-compatibility issue. However, Lars inspected uses of decode-time 
> <https://lists.gnu.org/r/emacs-devel/2019-07/msg00772.html> and found that 
> they 
> invariably did something like (nth N (decode-time...)) or (apply 
> #'encode-time 0 
> 0 0 (nthcdr 3 (decode-time))).

Was this inspection done on Emacs' own code, or also outside Emacs?