Re: current-time-list now defaults to nil in Emacs master

* Stefan Monnier via "Emacs development discussions." <[email protected]> :
Wrote on Tue, 28 Jul 2026 11:54:05 -0400:
>> So should I dynamically bind current-time-list around calls to
>> current-time in these old packages?
>
> The better alternative (beside adjust the code so it works with the new
> format) is to insert a call to `time-convert`, as suggested in the
> `current-time` docstring.

Some comments for the (my own) record

I spotted a difference (in "legacy code"), though it probably makes no
difference to code which didnt check for endp cddr

(setq current-time-list nil)

(setq $a "Fri Aug 14 12:51:33 2026 +0530")
(let ((current-time-list t)) (encode-time (parse-time-string $a)))
; (27262 49661)

(time-convert (encode-time (parse-time-string $a)) 'list)
;(27262 49661 0 0)


Another possible point of tripping is the interpretation of FORM in
time-convert vs the interpretetaion of FORM in decode-time and
parse-time-string