From: Gregory Heytings <gregory@heytings.org>
To: Andreas Schwab <schwab@linux-m68k.org>
Cc: Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>, emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Represent NTP's origin time
Date: Thu, 15 Apr 2021 08:22:29 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <3ed97a9c537f11069676@heytings.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <8735vsrmyh.fsf@igel.home>
>> NTP represents time stamps by counting seconds from January 1 1900, but
>> my Emacs doesn't seem to be able to represent this:
>>
>> (encode-time (parse-time-string "1902-01-01T00:00-00:00"))
>> => (-32745 59520)
>> (encode-time (parse-time-string "1900-01-01T00:00-00:00"))
>> => (error "Specified time is not representable")
>>
>> Do we have some "standard" workaround?
>
> Worksforme.
>
> ELISP> (encode-time (parse-time-string "1900-01-01T00:00-00:00"))
> (-33707 33152)
>
Works for me, too:
(encode-time (parse-time-string "9999-01-01T00:00-00:00"))
(3866131 3584)
(encode-time (parse-time-string "0000-01-01T00:00-00:00"))
(-948597 33792)
(encode-time (parse-time-string "-9999-01-01T00:00-00:00"))
(-5763323 19328)
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2021-04-15 8:22 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 25+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2021-04-15 4:00 Represent NTP's origin time Stefan Monnier
2021-04-15 8:06 ` Andreas Schwab
2021-04-15 8:22 ` Gregory Heytings [this message]
2021-04-15 8:27 ` Ulrich Mueller
2021-04-15 8:30 ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-04-15 12:40 ` Stefan Monnier
2021-04-15 12:56 ` Andreas Schwab
2021-04-15 13:39 ` Stefan Monnier
2021-04-15 13:41 ` Ulrich Mueller
2021-04-15 13:44 ` Stefan Monnier
2021-04-15 14:06 ` Gregory Heytings
2021-04-15 14:51 ` Stefan Monnier
2021-04-15 19:12 ` Achim Gratz
2021-04-16 7:06 ` tomas
2021-04-17 3:53 ` Richard Stallman
2021-04-17 7:30 ` tomas
2021-04-17 13:44 ` Achim Gratz
2021-04-17 14:09 ` tomas
2021-04-17 14:23 ` Stefan Monnier
2021-04-17 14:55 ` Achim Gratz
2021-04-17 15:27 ` tomas
2021-04-17 16:20 ` Achim Gratz
2021-04-17 16:54 ` [OFFTOPIC] " Stefan Monnier
2021-04-17 20:00 ` tomas
2021-04-17 20:31 ` Stefan Monnier
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