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Subject: Re: 23.0.50;
	org-timeline -> encode-time: Specified time is not representable
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    I'm not sure if `org-mode' and `encode-time' are supposed to parse
    dates like "0000-00-01" correctly.  So maybe it's no a bug. ;-)

Why are such dates "not representable"?  Is it a matter of still using
32-bit time values that start in 1971?

I thought that Linux and GNU libc were moving to 64-bit time values.
What's the status of that?  Do we need to change Emacs to take advantage
of that?  And what date do those time values start at?