From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Eli Zaretskii Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.bugs Subject: bug#19302: 24.4.51; `date-to-time' fails after 2038 Date: Tue, 09 Dec 2014 21:09:31 +0200 Message-ID: <831to8wsgk.fsf@gnu.org> References: <87vblmc377.fsf@gmail.com> <83ppbswzfq.fsf@gnu.org> <87h9x4k7qg.fsf@violet.siamics.net> <8361dkwufl.fsf@gnu.org> <834mt4wtec.fsf@gnu.org> Reply-To: Eli Zaretskii NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1418152224 8336 80.91.229.3 (9 Dec 2014 19:10:24 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 9 Dec 2014 19:10:24 +0000 (UTC) Cc: 19302@debbugs.gnu.org, ivan@siamics.net To: Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen Original-X-From: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue Dec 09 20:10:16 2014 Return-path: Envelope-to: geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1XyQAp-0005J4-W5 for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 09 Dec 2014 20:10:16 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:42065 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1XyQAp-0000t9-Gv for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 09 Dec 2014 14:10:15 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:37240) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1XyQAh-0000qj-Uz for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 09 Dec 2014 14:10:13 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1XyQAc-0000As-DY for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 09 Dec 2014 14:10:07 -0500 Original-Received: from debbugs.gnu.org ([140.186.70.43]:34516) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1XyQAc-0000AA-6G for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 09 Dec 2014 14:10:02 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-debbugs by debbugs.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.80) (envelope-from ) id 1XyQAb-0003n5-O3 for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 09 Dec 2014 14:10:01 -0500 X-Loop: help-debbugs@gnu.org Resent-From: Eli Zaretskii Original-Sender: "Debbugs-submit" Resent-CC: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Resent-Date: Tue, 09 Dec 2014 19:10:01 +0000 Resent-Message-ID: Resent-Sender: help-debbugs@gnu.org X-GNU-PR-Message: followup 19302 X-GNU-PR-Package: emacs X-GNU-PR-Keywords: Original-Received: via spool by 19302-submit@debbugs.gnu.org id=B19302.141815218714547 (code B ref 19302); Tue, 09 Dec 2014 19:10:01 +0000 Original-Received: (at 19302) by debbugs.gnu.org; 9 Dec 2014 19:09:47 +0000 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:59962 helo=debbugs.gnu.org) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.80) (envelope-from ) id 1XyQAK-0003mW-0g for submit@debbugs.gnu.org; Tue, 09 Dec 2014 14:09:47 -0500 Original-Received: from mtaout24.012.net.il ([80.179.55.180]:57210) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.80) (envelope-from ) id 1XyQAE-0003mJ-VU for 19302@debbugs.gnu.org; Tue, 09 Dec 2014 14:09:42 -0500 Original-Received: from conversion-daemon.mtaout24.012.net.il by mtaout24.012.net.il (HyperSendmail v2007.08) id <0NGB00600WUWWG00@mtaout24.012.net.il> for 19302@debbugs.gnu.org; Tue, 09 Dec 2014 21:01:51 +0200 (IST) Original-Received: from HOME-C4E4A596F7 ([87.69.4.28]) by mtaout24.012.net.il (HyperSendmail v2007.08) with ESMTPA id <0NGB004ITWV32X20@mtaout24.012.net.il>; Tue, 09 Dec 2014 21:01:51 +0200 (IST) In-reply-to: X-012-Sender: halo1@inter.net.il X-BeenThere: debbugs-submit@debbugs.gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.15 Precedence: list X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 3.x X-Received-From: 140.186.70.43 X-BeenThere: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org List-Id: "Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors" List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.bugs:97102 Archived-At: > From: Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen > Cc: 19302@debbugs.gnu.org, ivan@siamics.net > Date: Tue, 09 Dec 2014 20:01:22 +0100 > > Eli Zaretskii writes: > > >> The problem is in parsing dates in the far future. Web pages, for > >> instance, popularly use an Expiry: header saying that the page expires > >> in the year 2100 as a synonym for "never expires". > > > > So we are going now to reinvent all the strftime stuff, complete with > > localized names of months, days, etyc., is that so? > > Not at all. I'm just explaining what the use case it. I understood, and even agreed. > My solution would be to just document this ("Emacs does not support > dates further into the future than 2038 on OS-es with 32-bit > time_t") and move on. Yes.