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From: Julian Bean <jules@jellybean.co.uk>
To: emacs-orgmode@gnu.org
Subject: Error message could be improved - Specified time is not representable
Date: Tue, 24 May 2011 08:06:19 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <2D8D6FEC-69C7-43CF-B755-BB7BC49977AA@jellybean.co.uk> (raw)

Hi all,

On upgrading to emacs 23.3 (from emacs 23.1) my daily/weekly agenda became unusable, giving the error message "Specified time is not representable".

After a bit of poking around in the backtrace I tracked this down to an erroneous SCHEDULED date of 1st January 1904 buried inside a task. (This date was created by a bug in a script I was using to import TODOs from another system).

Evidently, for some reason, calling (encode-time 0 0 0 1 1 1904) on 23.3 causes the error above, whereas on 23.1 it's silently ignored?

I think the best thing for org-mode is to catch this error and report it to the user in a more understandable way so they can locate and fix the buggy timestamp - at least, include the full text of the timestamp so they can easily grep for it?

Jules

             reply	other threads:[~2011-05-24  7:12 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2011-05-24  7:06 Julian Bean [this message]
2011-05-24  8:16 ` Error message could be improved - Specified time is not representable Giovanni Ridolfi
2011-05-24  8:31   ` Julian Bean

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