From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Andreas Schwab Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Year 2038 problem with calendar (Bad holiday list items) Date: Mon, 16 Apr 2007 10:44:04 +0200 Message-ID: References: NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1176713075 24699 80.91.229.12 (16 Apr 2007 08:44:35 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 16 Apr 2007 08:44:35 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Sascha Wilde Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon Apr 16 10:44:29 2007 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1HdMoz-00031Z-Nh for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 16 Apr 2007 10:44:25 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1HdMtZ-0002E5-UD for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 16 Apr 2007 04:49:10 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1HdMtP-0002Bu-8m for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 16 Apr 2007 04:48:59 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1HdMtN-0002BM-8E for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 16 Apr 2007 04:48:58 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1HdMtN-0002BJ-2F for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 16 Apr 2007 04:48:57 -0400 Original-Received: from ns.suse.de ([195.135.220.2] helo=mx1.suse.de) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:DHE_RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1HdMol-00005S-OB for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 16 Apr 2007 04:44:11 -0400 Original-Received: from Relay2.suse.de (mail2.suse.de [195.135.221.8]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by mx1.suse.de (Postfix) with ESMTP id A4E07122D5; Mon, 16 Apr 2007 10:44:08 +0200 (CEST) X-Yow: I'm thinking about DIGITAL READ-OUT systems and computer-generated IMAGE FORMATIONS.. In-Reply-To: (Sascha Wilde's message of "Mon, 16 Apr 2007 10:07:37 +0200") User-Agent: Gnus/5.110006 (No Gnus v0.6) Emacs/22.0.97 (gnu/linux) X-detected-kernel: Linux 2.4-2.6 X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:69488 Archived-At: Sascha Wilde writes: > When using calendar to show holidays for years past 2037 I get some > errors. You cannot represent a date beyond 2038-01-19T03:14:07+00:00 in a 32 bit signed time_t. Emacs depends on the libc time functions to do time zone calculations. Andreas. --=20 Andreas Schwab, SuSE Labs, schwab@suse.de SuSE Linux Products GmbH, Maxfeldstra=DFe 5, 90409 N=FCrnberg, Germany PGP key fingerprint =3D 58CA 54C7 6D53 942B 1756 01D3 44D5 214B 8276 4ED= 5 "And now for something completely different."