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@ignore
This file documents the user interface to the GNU History library.
-Copyright (C) 1988-2007 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
+Copyright (C) 1988-2011 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
Authored by Brian Fox and Chet Ramey.
Permission is granted to make and distribute verbatim copies of this manual
@@ -426,6 +426,10 @@ The maximum number of history entries. This must be changed using
If non-zero, timestamps are written to the history file, so they can be
preserved between sessions. The default value is 0, meaning that
timestamps are not saved.
+
+The current timestamp format uses the value of @var{history_comment_char}
+to delimit timestamp entries in the history file. If that variable does
+not have a value (the default), timestamps will not be written.
@end deftypevar
@deftypevar char history_expansion_char