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 11:18:36 -0500 Message-ID: References: <87vblmc377.fsf@gmail.com> <83ppbswzfq.fsf@gnu.org> 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 2131 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: Eli Zaretskii Original-X-From: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Dec 10 17:19:14 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 1Xyjyr-0005Dg-PI for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 10 Dec 2014 17:19:13 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:46551 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Xyjyr-0004Hh-9Z for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 10 Dec 2014 11:19:13 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:52979) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Xyjyh-0004EW-MD for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 10 Dec 2014 11:19:05 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Xyjyg-0001xm-Qw for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 10 Dec 2014 11:19:03 -0500 Original-Received: from debbugs.gnu.org ([140.186.70.43]:35377) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Xyjyg-0001xe-N1 for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 10 Dec 2014 11:19:02 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-debbugs by debbugs.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.80) (envelope-from ) id 1Xyjyg-0005AK-D7 for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 10 Dec 2014 11:19:02 -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 16:19:02 +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=B19302.141822832419814 (code B ref 19302); Wed, 10 Dec 2014 16:19:02 +0000 Original-Received: (at 19302) by debbugs.gnu.org; 10 Dec 2014 16:18:44 +0000 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:60820 helo=debbugs.gnu.org) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.80) (envelope-from ) id 1XyjyO-00059V-0d for submit@debbugs.gnu.org; Wed, 10 Dec 2014 11:18:44 -0500 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([208.118.235.10]:57553) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.80) (envelope-from ) id 1XyjyM-00059O-Fk for 19302@debbugs.gnu.org; Wed, 10 Dec 2014 11:18:42 -0500 Original-Received: from rms by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1XyjyG-0003UH-LK; Wed, 10 Dec 2014 11:18:37 -0500 In-reply-to: <83ppbswzfq.fsf@gnu.org> (message from Eli Zaretskii on Tue, 09 Dec 2014 18:38:49 +0200) 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:97140 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. > What do you do with time_t fields of 'struct stat', 'struct timeval', > and other structures used by library functions? They will still wrap > around. Emacs can't fix the operating system, to be sure. But it could use 64 bits for time values when not passing them through the system. -- 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.