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From: Eric S Fraga <e.fraga@ucl.ac.uk>
Subject: Re: Timestamps for a whole year, or a year and month
Date: Mon, 30 Dec 2013 20:11:17 +0000
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Erik Hetzner <egh@e6h.org> writes:

> Hi,
>
> I am trying to get together a configuration for taking notes for
> historical research using org mode. I think org mode could be very
> useful for this, with its many ways of presenting, sorting and
> searching information in orgmode files.
>
> One thing that has me a bit stuck, though, is timestamps that might
> represent a year. For instance, it would be nice to write:
>
>   By <1849> the California Gold Rush had ...

[...]

Erik,

I am not sure but I remember having a discussion about the problems with
dates that precede time 0 in Unix which corresponds to 1 January
1970.  See man page for ctime(3) for instance.

I am currently offline (in the tunnel under the North Sea :-) so cannot
find out what the conclusions of our discussion may have been.  Please
search the mailing list on Worg.

-- 
: Eric S Fraga (0xFFFCF67D), Emacs 24.2.1, Org release_8.2.4-322-gece429