Re: Time not representable

[Paul Eggert]

On 03/12/2011 02:13 PM, Carsten Dominik wrote:
> So if a system uses a signed 64 bit integer, then the representation
> problems will be fixed automatically, without further changes in
> Emacs?

Sorry, no.  Perhaps my explanation wasn't clear?

> Is there anyone here who has a 64 bit system and con confirm that
> encode-time can handle times both before 1970 and after 2040 without 
> any problems?

I have one (RHEL 5.5, x86-64), and can verify that it
can handle times well outside the 1970-2038 range;
but there are problems, as mentioned in my previous message.
For example, (decode-time (encode-time 0 0 0 1 1 2147485548))
returns (0 0 0 1 1 -2147481748 4 nil -28378) on my host, and
this is obviously bogus.