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: Fri, 12 Dec 2014 11:42:25 -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 1418402614 21172 80.91.229.3 (12 Dec 2014 16:43:34 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 12 Dec 2014 16:43:34 +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 Fri Dec 12 17:43:28 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 1XzTJM-0005ZD-89 for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 12 Dec 2014 17:43:24 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:58311 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1XzTJL-0006a5-Si for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 12 Dec 2014 11:43:23 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:42687) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1XzTJ4-0006Go-VM for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 12 Dec 2014 11:43:07 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1XzTJ0-0001dR-LT for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 12 Dec 2014 11:43:06 -0500 Original-Received: from debbugs.gnu.org ([140.186.70.43]:34759) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1XzTJ0-0001dI-JL for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 12 Dec 2014 11:43:02 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-debbugs by debbugs.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.80) (envelope-from ) id 1XzTJ0-0006eN-Eq for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 12 Dec 2014 11:43:02 -0500 X-Loop: help-debbugs@gnu.org Resent-From: Richard Stallman Original-Sender: "Debbugs-submit" Resent-CC: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Resent-Date: Fri, 12 Dec 2014 16:43:02 +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=B19302.141840254925524 (code B ref 19302); Fri, 12 Dec 2014 16:43:02 +0000 Original-Received: (at 19302) by debbugs.gnu.org; 12 Dec 2014 16:42:29 +0000 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:44125 helo=debbugs.gnu.org) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.80) (envelope-from ) id 1XzTIS-0006dc-Ke for submit@debbugs.gnu.org; Fri, 12 Dec 2014 11:42:28 -0500 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([208.118.235.10]:58386 ident=Debian-exim) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.80) (envelope-from ) id 1XzTIR-0006dU-06 for 19302@debbugs.gnu.org; Fri, 12 Dec 2014 11:42:27 -0500 Original-Received: from rms by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1XzTIP-0002S7-VC; Fri, 12 Dec 2014 11:42:26 -0500 In-reply-to: (message from Stefan Monnier on Thu, 11 Dec 2014 15:31:23 -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:97269 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. ]]] > >> 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. Does anyone know what C library version fixes this? Whoever said it can be fixed that way -- do you know? -- 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.