From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.bugs Subject: bug#19302: 24.4.51; `date-to-time' fails after 2038 Date: Tue, 09 Dec 2014 19:31:20 +0100 Message-ID: References: <87vblmc377.fsf@gmail.com> <83ppbswzfq.fsf@gnu.org> <87h9x4k7qg.fsf@violet.siamics.net> <8361dkwufl.fsf@gnu.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1418149943 2486 80.91.229.3 (9 Dec 2014 18:32:23 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 9 Dec 2014 18:32:23 +0000 (UTC) Cc: 19302@debbugs.gnu.org, Ivan Shmakov To: Eli Zaretskii Original-X-From: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue Dec 09 19:32:16 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 1XyPa4-0004Om-60 for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; 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Web pages, for instance, popularly use an Expiry: header saying that the page expires in the year 2100 as a synonym for "never expires". It would be nice if those headers worked on 32-bit Emacsen, but on the other hand, there's very little reason to use a 32-bit OS these days, so it's not really a pressing issue. And it gets less pressing each year. -- (domestic pets only, the antidote for overdose, milk.) bloggy blog: http://lars.ingebrigtsen.no