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From: Gregor Zattler <telegraph@gmx.net>
Subject: Re: dates before 1970
Date: Fri, 11 Mar 2011 18:56:08 +0100
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Hi Carsten, orgers,
* Carsten Dominik <carsten.dominik@gmail.com> [11. Mar. 2011]:
> I asked in emacs-develop and got:
> 
>> by Andreas Schwabon 2011-03-11T13:19:43+00:00.
>> 
>> If your system's time-t is a signed 32-bit integer then your system is
>> able to represent times between 1901-12-13 20:45:53 UTC and 2038-01-19
>> 03:14:07 UTC. If your system's time-t is an unsigned 32-bit integer
>> your system can represent times between 1970-01-01 00:00:00 UTC and
>> 2106-02-07 06:28:15 UTC.

Therefore it should be possible to either use a pre 1970 date or
a post 2038 date, but:

If I type (as Eric suggested in the starting message of this
thread) 
C-c ! 1968-12-10 RET 
I get 
[2011-12-10 Sa] 
(same as Eric).

But if I type
C-c ! 2040
I get an error message "specified time not representable".

So for me it's neither--nor but in different ways.  The second
way of failing is much better because I get feedback.



Ciao, Gregor
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