From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.bugs Subject: bug#19302: 24.4.51; `date-to-time' fails after 2038 Date: Tue, 09 Dec 2014 20:01:22 +0100 Message-ID: References: <87vblmc377.fsf@gmail.com> <83ppbswzfq.fsf@gnu.org> <87h9x4k7qg.fsf@violet.siamics.net> <8361dkwufl.fsf@gnu.org> <834mt4wtec.fsf@gnu.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1418151768 802 80.91.229.3 (9 Dec 2014 19:02:48 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 9 Dec 2014 19:02:48 +0000 (UTC) Cc: 19302@debbugs.gnu.org, ivan@siamics.net To: Eli Zaretskii Original-X-From: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue Dec 09 20:02:41 2014 Return-path: Envelope-to: geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1XyQ3U-00021D-Vn for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; 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Web pages, for >> instance, popularly use an Expiry: header saying that the page expires >> in the year 2100 as a synonym for "never expires". > > So we are going now to reinvent all the strftime stuff, complete with > localized names of months, days, etyc., is that so? Not at all. I'm just explaining what the use case it. My solution would be to just document this ("Emacs does not support dates further into the future than 2038 on OS-es with 32-bit time_t") and move on. -- (domestic pets only, the antidote for overdose, milk.) bloggy blog: http://lars.ingebrigtsen.no