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From: Eric S Fraga <e.fraga@ucl.ac.uk>
To: Carsten Dominik <carsten.dominik@gmail.com>
Cc: Bastien Guerry <bzg@altern.org>,
	"nicholas.dokos@hp.com Dokos" <nicholas.dokos@hp.com>,
	Emacs Org mode mailing list <emacs-orgmode@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: dates before 1970
Date: Sun, 13 Mar 2011 20:08:39 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87y64i6awo.fsf@ucl.ac.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <C4308AF9-4D46-4205-B9DE-10F1F651CB23@gmail.com> (Carsten Dominik's message of "Sun, 13 Mar 2011 08:39:13 +0100")

Carsten Dominik <carsten.dominik@gmail.com> writes:

[...]

> I am attaching a patch which tries to implement some kind of a
> solution for this problem.  The patch introduces a new variable
> which will allow you to use dates outside the safe range 1970-2037

Thanks Carsten.

[...]

> The patch also introduces a warning with a beep when Org has forced the year,
> which, I think, was really the main concern in this thread.

Yes, at least for me this is key.  I can use diary sexps, as you say,
for those dates that lie outside the range supported by emacs directly
but I need to know when something strange happens!

Thanks again,
eric

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  reply	other threads:[~2011-03-13 21:01 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 22+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2011-03-10 21:00 dates before 1970 Eric S Fraga
2011-03-10 23:06 ` Nick Dokos
2011-03-11  8:31   ` Bastien
2011-03-11  8:52     ` Carsten Dominik
2011-03-13  7:39     ` Carsten Dominik
2011-03-13 20:08       ` Eric S Fraga [this message]
2011-03-14  7:40         ` Carsten Dominik
2011-03-14  9:58           ` Bastien
2011-03-11  8:47   ` Eric S Fraga
2011-03-11 11:36     ` Carsten Dominik
2011-03-11 12:00       ` Eric S Fraga
2011-03-11 15:28         ` Carsten Dominik
2011-03-11 17:56           ` Gregor Zattler
2011-03-12 22:38           ` Robert Horn
2011-03-11 16:30       ` Nick Dokos
2011-03-14 10:21         ` Carsten Dominik
2011-03-14 15:11           ` Nick Dokos
2011-03-14 17:02             ` Carsten Dominik
2011-03-14 17:13               ` Nick Dokos
2011-03-14 18:12                 ` Achim Gratz
2011-03-15  7:24                   ` Carsten Dominik
2011-03-11 16:16     ` Nick Dokos

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