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Re: How to compare time of last file modification?


From: Pascal J. Bourguignon
Subject: Re: How to compare time of last file modification?
Date: Sun, 01 Jul 2012 19:36:13 +0200
User-agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.4 (gnu/linux)

Thorsten Jolitz <tjolitz@googlemail.com> writes:

> Is there a reason to prefer time-less-p or the custom-made solutions
> over file-newer-than-file-p?

file-newer-than-file-p use the OS provided m_time types to compare.
time-less-p uses a 1-second resolution, 32-bit representation of time.
Therefore?

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