From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Richard Stallman Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.bugs Subject: bug#19302: 24.4.51; `date-to-time' fails after 2038 Date: Wed, 10 Dec 2014 11:17:27 -0500 Message-ID: References: <87vblmc377.fsf@gmail.com> Reply-To: rms@gnu.org NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-15 X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1418228360 2132 80.91.229.3 (10 Dec 2014 16:19:20 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 10 Dec 2014 16:19:20 +0000 (UTC) Cc: 19302@debbugs.gnu.org, beauchampgabriel@gmail.com, larsi@gnus.org To: Stefan Monnier Original-X-From: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Dec 10 17:19:13 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 1Xyjyq-0005Dc-Uv for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 10 Dec 2014 17:19:13 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:46550 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Xyjyq-0004Gw-E6 for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 10 Dec 2014 11:19:12 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:52526) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Xyjxo-0003Gx-2c for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 10 Dec 2014 11:18:08 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Xyjxi-0001Tl-69 for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 10 Dec 2014 11:18:07 -0500 Original-Received: from debbugs.gnu.org ([140.186.70.43]:35370) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Xyjxi-0001Tg-3a for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 10 Dec 2014 11:18:02 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-debbugs by debbugs.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.80) (envelope-from ) id 1Xyjxh-00058N-U1 for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 10 Dec 2014 11:18:02 -0500 X-Loop: help-debbugs@gnu.org Resent-From: Richard Stallman Original-Sender: "Debbugs-submit" Resent-CC: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Resent-Date: Wed, 10 Dec 2014 16:18:01 +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=B19302.141822825419699 (code B ref 19302); Wed, 10 Dec 2014 16:18:01 +0000 Original-Received: (at 19302) by debbugs.gnu.org; 10 Dec 2014 16:17:34 +0000 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:60816 helo=debbugs.gnu.org) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.80) (envelope-from ) id 1XyjxF-00057f-CW for submit@debbugs.gnu.org; Wed, 10 Dec 2014 11:17:33 -0500 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([208.118.235.10]:57394) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.80) (envelope-from ) id 1XyjxD-00057X-F2 for 19302@debbugs.gnu.org; Wed, 10 Dec 2014 11:17:31 -0500 Original-Received: from rms by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Xyjx9-0003AC-UW; Wed, 10 Dec 2014 11:17:28 -0500 In-reply-to: (message from Stefan Monnier on Tue, 09 Dec 2014 19:37:36 -0500) 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:97141 Archived-At: [[[ To any NSA and FBI agents reading my email: please consider ]]] [[[ whether defending the US Constitution against all enemies, ]]] [[[ foreign or domestic, requires you to follow Snowden's example. ]]] > > Apparently so -- that is why I suggest making Emacs use 64 bits > > even if the operating system uses 32 bits. > This problem will affect all applications under such OSes, so fixing it > in Emacs won't be sufficient. That's true. However, Emacs will get wrong results today on those systems, if operating on future times. We may as well make that problem go away. -- Dr Richard Stallman President, Free Software Foundation 51 Franklin St Boston MA 02110 USA www.fsf.org www.gnu.org Skype: No way! That's nonfree (freedom-denying) software. Use Ekiga or an ordinary phone call.