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Parsing formatted time string (inverse of format-time-string)

The format-time-string function takes a time argument like '(21761 64499 350937 0) and a format string like "%y-%m-%d %a %H:%M" and returns something like "15-03-12 Thu 16:49". What is the inverse function, which takes "15-03-12 Thu 16:49" and…
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How to make org-mode DWIM when it reads times in timestamps?

Q: how can I make org-mode read the time in timestamps intelligently? org-mode uses org-read-date (which in turn relies on parse-time-string) to create/modify timestamps, scheduled items, and deadlines. I'm trying to figure out how to make it…
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How to make org-mode understand alternate day/month abbreviations?

Q: How can I make org-mode understand alternate day/month abbreviations? org-mode uses the function org-read-date when entering timestamps, scheduling dates, and creating deadlines. One may enter three-letter day or month abbreviations (e.g., "sun"…
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How do I interconvert Calc's HMS forms and seconds?

Is there a built-in way to convert/toggle between GNU Emacs Calc's HMS forms and seconds? I'd also like to easily be able to add numbers as seconds and/or minutes to an existing HMS form.
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How to add a time and a time interval in calc-mode?

How do I use calc to add a time interval to a moment in time (i.e., a date, or a time)? For instance, say I want to know what the time and day will be 8,000 minutes into the future? I know that t N will push the current moment onto the stack. And I…
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How to make org-mode timestamps understand a new abbreviation for "tomorrow"?

Q: How can I make org-read-date understand an abbreviation that calls a function that returns tomorrow's day of the week? The super-short version: I'm trying to get the timestamp functionality of +1d when typing tom as a more finger-friendly way of…
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Compare file modification time stamps

Background I am using Emacsclient to open files in a Emacs server. The server configuration depends on the content of a JSON configuration file. A Perl script can read the config file and write a suitable Emacs Lisp hashtable load file, which the…
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How to compare date strings?

I have a LaTeX package declared with a date: \usepackage{foo}[=2021-04-01] and I need to check if this date is before or after "2021-03-01". Is there a way to compare dates, like (if (< date1 date0) ... )? Raw solution Thanks to @Drew's answer I…
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org-mode timestamp repeater interval manipulation

What are (if any) the lisp functions to read and write the repeater interval part of the org-mode timestamps? (The ones at the end of the timestamp string, which are optional, e.g. +1w or +6d in <2016-03-03 Thu .+6d -3d> or [2016-01-27 Wed ++1w…
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How to parse calendar date or timestamp at cursor from elisp?

Is there a function to parse the text around the cursor and return the date if found? E.g., if I'm in a buffer with the cursor in the middle of this text: 2015-12-01 First day of new exercise program 2016-01-08 Hit a milestone: ran a…
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Setting minimum time between consecutive reparses by semantic

According to the Semantic docs, semantic-edit.el is the file which handles all incremental parsing. I see frequent incremental parse errors(not information messages, since I have semantic-edits-verbose-flag nil) and would like to set a minimum time…
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Convert a timestamp to local time

I have a timestamp string "2011-01-23T16:18:46-08:00" and I want to convert it to my local time zone. (format-time-string "%Y-%m-%dT%H:%M:%S%z" (decode-time (parse-iso8601-time-string "2011-01-23T16:18:46-08:00"))) gives…
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time-zone-valid-p: Is there such a function?

I am trying to debug an invalid timezone '(nil nil nil) that is causing encode-time to choke on the optional ZONE argument. Q:  Is there a time-zone-valid-p function anywhere that I can use to test the ZONE before passing it to encode-time?
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How can I convert a list of integers to a string?

Let's say I have a list of integers, representing year, month, day for a date: (2017 8 21) and I want to format the list in one function call, as in (format "%04d-%02d-%02d" 2017 8 21) Is there an easy way to do this? I know I could assign the…
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What's the inverse of (format-time-string "%s")?

Parsing formatted time string (inverse of format-time-string) asks for a complete inverse of format-time-string with the ability to specify the source format, but I really just need to get from a UNIX time / epoch time to a real time value (like…
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