From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!.POSTED.blaine.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Stefan Kangas Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.bugs Subject: bug#19302: 24.4.51; `date-to-time' fails after 2038 Date: Sat, 02 Nov 2019 01:11:21 +0100 Message-ID: <878sozuogm.fsf@marxist.se> References: <87vblmc377.fsf@gmail.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Injection-Info: blaine.gmane.org; posting-host="blaine.gmane.org:195.159.176.226"; logging-data="268559"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@blaine.gmane.org" User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/27.0.50 (gnu/linux) Cc: 19302@debbugs.gnu.org, beauchampgabriel@gmail.com, larsi@gnus.org, Richard Stallman To: Stefan Monnier Original-X-From: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sat Nov 02 01:12:17 2019 Return-path: Envelope-to: geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([209.51.188.17]) by blaine.gmane.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.89) (envelope-from ) id 1iQh1d-0017kK-OM for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; 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d=marxist.se; s=default; h=Content-Type:MIME-Version:Message-ID:Date:References: In-Reply-To:Subject:Cc:To:From:Sender:Reply-To:Content-Transfer-Encoding: Content-ID:Content-Description:Resent-Date:Resent-From:Resent-Sender: Resent-To:Resent-Cc:Resent-Message-ID:List-Id:List-Help:List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe:List-Post:List-Owner:List-Archive; bh=Ytx2mwcM0YSEFhfI0ggF+aTyC6pq48ve5awxLKiiShQ=; b=apSxtKPbaNrTxFsCYJFyIILSSC a+dD0VFiXJzZM7yoyX+AURgBSc9E+H4fLSciqHqn8L6zs+jm0MFhrNhHTaXO6+wFU14aS/3UO1AnX YxLPm0h+Uw+XvRFF9BTRE0lHCy8ZNi/rbk9bvoFLJMZS5sAYI+YZDuysmxN4Cg5FqtRA=; Original-Received: from h-70-69.a785.priv.bahnhof.se ([155.4.70.69]:35680 helo=localhost) by host.gofardesign.uk with esmtpsa (TLSv1.2:ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384:256) (Exim 4.92) (envelope-from ) id 1iQh0l-0005uM-1l; Fri, 01 Nov 2019 19:11:24 -0500 In-Reply-To: (Stefan Monnier's message of "Thu, 11 Dec 2014 15:31:23 -0500") X-OutGoing-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.0 X-AntiAbuse: This header was added to track abuse, please include it with any abuse report X-AntiAbuse: Primary Hostname - host.gofardesign.uk X-AntiAbuse: Original Domain - debbugs.gnu.org X-AntiAbuse: Originator/Caller UID/GID - [47 12] / [47 12] X-AntiAbuse: Sender Address Domain - marxist.se X-Get-Message-Sender-Via: host.gofardesign.uk: authenticated_id: stefan@marxist.se X-Authenticated-Sender: host.gofardesign.uk: stefan@marxist.se X-BeenThere: debbugs-submit@debbugs.gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.18 Precedence: list X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.2.x-3.x [generic] X-Received-From: 209.51.188.43 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" Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.bugs:170718 Archived-At: Stefan Monnier writes: >>> I agree, but not by making Emacs do heroic hacks, instead we can make >>> the problem go away by telling the user to update his C library. >> What C library version fixes this? > > I don't know. But as long as the problem is not sufficiently important > to fix it in the C library, I don't see why we should fix it in Emacs. It seems like the glibc maintainers are still working on a fix. Here are two relevant links for reference: https://sourceware.org/glibc/wiki/Y2038ProofnessDesign https://sourceware.org/ml/libc-alpha/2019-07/msg00256.html Best regards, Stefan Kangas