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From: Julian Bean <jules@jellybean.co.uk>
Subject: Error message could be improved - Specified time is not
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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