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From: Nicolas Goaziou <mail@nicolasgoaziou.fr>
Subject: Re: org-read-date wrong for dates before 1970 ?
Date: Thu, 17 Sep 2015 11:28:34 +0200
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Hello,

Martin Kaffanke <martin@kaffanke.at> writes:

> I'm doing in *scratch* the following (with C-j at the end of the line):
>
> (org-insert-time-stamp (org-read-date nil 'totime "8. M=C3=A4rz 2012"))
> <2012-10-08 Mon>"<2012-10-08 Mon>"
>
> (org-insert-time-stamp (org-read-date nil 'totime "8. M=C3=A4rz 1952"))
> <1970-10-08 Don>"<1970-10-08 Don>"
>
> (org-insert-time-stamp (org-read-date nil 'totime "1952-03-08"))
> <1970-03-08 Son>"<1970-03-08 Son>"
>
> So there a (german, and english - the last one) formated time is
> translated correct for dates after 1970, but its wrong before that.
>
> How can we fix that?

See org-read-date-force-compatible-dates.

Regards,

--=20
Nicolas Goaziou