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| -rw-r--r-- | lisp/timer.el | 14 |
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diff --git a/lisp/timer.el b/lisp/timer.el index b743d3caf7f..199a6fe46a0 100644 --- a/lisp/timer.el +++ b/lisp/timer.el @@ -36,7 +36,19 @@ Arguments are TIME, REPEAT, FUNCTION &rest ARGS. TIME, a string, can be specified absolutely or relative to now. REPEAT, an integer number of seconds, is the interval on which to repeat -the call to the function. If REPEAT is nil, call it just once." +the call to the function. If REPEAT is nil, call it just once. + +Absolute times may be specified in a wide variety of formats; +Something of the form `HOUR:MIN:SEC TIMEZONE MONTH/DAY/YEAR', where +all fields are numbers, will work; the format used by the Unix `date' +command will work too. + +Relative times may be specified as a series of numbers followed by units: + 1 min denotes one minute from now. + min does too. + 1 min 5 sec denotes 65 seconds from now. + 1 min 2 sec 3 hour 4 day 5 week 6 fortnight 7 month 8 year + denotes the sum of all the given durations from now." (interactive "sRun at time: \nNRepeat interval: \naFunction: ") (cond ((or (not timer-process) (memq (process-status timer-process) '(exit signal nil))) |