Re: Arithmetic range error

[Nicolas Goaziou <mail@nicolasgoaziou.fr>]

Hello,

Robert Pluim <rpluim@gmail.com> writes:

> Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> writes:
>
>>> From: Robert Pluim <rpluim@gmail.com>
>>> Date: Fri, 08 Feb 2019 14:34:29 +0100
>>> Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org
>>> 
>>> The problem comes from org's desire to have the ctime as a single
>>> integer. Reverting the commit that changed org to use 'floor' will
>>> just result in truncation (but people might not care about that, since
>>> weʼd be dropping the high bits of the timestamp). Ideally org would
>>> handle the list form of timestamps, but thatʼs something for org
>>> developers to decide.
>>
>> Indeed, this is a matter for Org developers to handle.  CC'ing Bastien
>> for that reason.
>
> Nicolas does a lot of org work as well, CC'd.
>
> Thinking about it some more, the old method already truncated the
> ctime anyway, and has done for a long time, so perhaps restoring it is
> not unwarranted.

I modified Org (master branch) so that it uses the list representation
of time values in this situation. 

Thank you for the suggestion.

Regards,

-- 
Nicolas Goaziou