* org-read-date wrong for dates before 1970 ?
@ 2015-09-17 9:18 Martin Kaffanke
2015-09-17 9:28 ` Nicolas Goaziou
2015-09-17 9:48 ` Eric S Fraga
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From: Martin Kaffanke @ 2015-09-17 9:18 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: emacs-orgmode
Hi there,
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. März 2012"))
<2012-10-08 Mon>"<2012-10-08 Mon>"
(org-insert-time-stamp (org-read-date nil 'totime "8. März 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?
(this code is used in the google-contacts-to-org-contacts functions from
the google-contacts package)
Thanks,
Martin
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* Re: org-read-date wrong for dates before 1970 ?
2015-09-17 9:18 org-read-date wrong for dates before 1970 ? Martin Kaffanke
@ 2015-09-17 9:28 ` Nicolas Goaziou
2015-09-17 9:46 ` Martin Kaffanke
2015-09-17 9:48 ` Eric S Fraga
1 sibling, 1 reply; 4+ messages in thread
From: Nicolas Goaziou @ 2015-09-17 9:28 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: Martin Kaffanke; +Cc: emacs-orgmode
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. März 2012"))
> <2012-10-08 Mon>"<2012-10-08 Mon>"
>
> (org-insert-time-stamp (org-read-date nil 'totime "8. März 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,
--
Nicolas Goaziou
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* Re: org-read-date wrong for dates before 1970 ?
2015-09-17 9:28 ` Nicolas Goaziou
@ 2015-09-17 9:46 ` Martin Kaffanke
0 siblings, 0 replies; 4+ messages in thread
From: Martin Kaffanke @ 2015-09-17 9:46 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: Nicolas Goaziou; +Cc: emacs-orgmode
Nicolas Goaziou writes:
> Hello,
>
> Martin Kaffanke <martin@kaffanke.at> writes:
>
>> 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.
Thanks, that's the important hint. Even if I think this solution is for
stability by having less functionality. So maybe there should be found
a stable solution with full functionality?
Thanks,
Martin
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* Re: org-read-date wrong for dates before 1970 ?
2015-09-17 9:18 org-read-date wrong for dates before 1970 ? Martin Kaffanke
2015-09-17 9:28 ` Nicolas Goaziou
@ 2015-09-17 9:48 ` Eric S Fraga
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From: Eric S Fraga @ 2015-09-17 9:48 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: Martin Kaffanke; +Cc: emacs-orgmode
On Thursday, 17 Sep 2015 at 11:18, Martin Kaffanke wrote:
[...]
> So there a (german, and english - the last one) formated time is
> translated correct for dates after 1970, but its wrong before that.
This is a known issue: Unix was born in 1969 and time did not exist
before ;-) It's the equivalent of the big bang.
More seriously, the data structure used to indicate time and date in
Unix is 0 sometime in 1969 and runs out in 2037 (due to 32 bit integer
arithmetic), at least as far as org is concerned.
--
: Eric S Fraga (0xFFFCF67D), Emacs 25.0.50.2, Org release_8.3.1-234-g8c85c9
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