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From: Carsten Dominik <carsten.dominik@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: dates before 1970
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To: Eric S Fraga <e.fraga@ucl.ac.uk>
Cc: Bastien Guerry <bzg@altern.org>, "nicholas.dokos@hp.com Dokos" <nicholas.dokos@hp.com>, Emacs Org mode mailing list <emacs-orgmode@gnu.org>

Hi Bastien,

please let me know if you want this patch installed.

- Carsten

On 13.3.2011, at 21:08, Eric S Fraga wrote:

> Carsten Dominik <carsten.dominik@gmail.com> writes:
>=20
> [...]
>=20
>> 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
>=20
> Thanks Carsten.
>=20
> [...]
>=20
>> 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.
>=20
> 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!
>=20
> Thanks again,
> eric
>=20
> --=20
> : Eric S Fraga (GnuPG: 0xC89193D8FFFCF67D) in Emacs 24.0.50.1
> : using Org-mode version 7.5 (release_7.5.32.gdf26.dirty)