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From: Glenn Morris <rgm@gnu.org>
To: Sascha Wilde <wilde@sha-bang.de>
Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Year 2038 problem with calendar (Bad holiday list items)
Date: Mon, 16 Apr 2007 15:37:50 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <mairbw2jqp.fsf@fencepost.gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <mimz189q9m.fsf@fencepost.gnu.org> (Glenn Morris's message of "Mon, 16 Apr 2007 13:35:01 -0400")

Glenn Morris wrote:

> Works for me. 

OK, now I can reproduce it on a 32-bit system. As has been said, it's
because things like:

(encode-time 1 0 0 1 1 2039)

fail on such systems ("specified time is not representable").

> (setq calendar-dst-check-each-year-flag nil)

This does avoid the problem for me.


I will see if this can be handled more gracefully, but I see no need
for this to be changed before the release of Emacs 22. Assuming, as
Nick says, that this happens in the next 30 years...

  reply	other threads:[~2007-04-16 19:37 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2007-04-16  8:07 Year 2038 problem with calendar (Bad holiday list items) Sascha Wilde
2007-04-16  8:16 ` Ed Reingold
2007-04-16 14:40   ` Sascha Wilde
2007-04-16  8:23 ` Nick Roberts
2007-04-16  8:44 ` Andreas Schwab
2007-04-16 13:26   ` Ed Reingold
2007-04-16 17:35 ` Glenn Morris
2007-04-16 19:37   ` Glenn Morris [this message]
     [not found]     ` <200704162012.l3GKClK9012725@emr.cs.iit.edu>
2007-04-16 22:37       ` Glenn Morris
     [not found]         ` <200704162244.l3GMiVZg013373@emr.cs.iit.edu>
2007-04-16 23:03           ` Glenn Morris
2007-04-17  2:37         ` Glenn Morris
2007-04-17  8:45     ` Sascha Wilde

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