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Re: [O] Error message could be improved - Specified time is not represen
From: |
Giovanni Ridolfi |
Subject: |
Re: [O] Error message could be improved - Specified time is not representable |
Date: |
Tue, 24 May 2011 10:16:02 +0200 |
User-agent: |
Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.3 (windows-nt) |
Julian Bean <address@hidden> writes:
Hi Jules,
>
> On upgrading to emacs 23.3 (from emacs 23.1) my daily/weekly agenda
> became unusable, giving the error message "Specified time is not
> representable".
>
> [...] I tracked this down to an erroneous SCHEDULED date of 1st
> January 1904 buried inside a task. [...]
>
> Evidently, for some reason, calling (encode-time 0 0 0 1 1 1904) on
> 23.3 causes the error above,
" This is probably related to the same problem as discussed in this
thread:
http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.orgmode/39206
on the limitations of unix time (whether on Unix or not...)."
> whereas on 23.1 it's silently ignored?
Since it is an Emacs problem I think you should ask Emacs's
developers:
address@hidden
or file a bug report:
M-x report-emacs-bug or write to
address@hidden
cheers,
Giovanni