Re: [O] How to debug "Specified time is not representable"

[Nick Dokos]

Karl Voit <address@hidden> wrote:

> Hi!
> 
> When I get «Specified time is not representable» while creating the
> Agenda view, I want to get more information *where* the problem is.
> 
> I found [1] and following and so I got it that there is no way of
> managing timestamps before 1970 :-(
> 

Not quite true: Carsten introduced org-read-date-force-compatible-dates
which allows the user to take full responsibility for shooting
{him,her}self in the foot :-)

See 

    http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.orgmode/39206

You can try setting it to nil and see if your system dtrt, but you
should read the caveats in the doc string of the variable.

Nick

> Is there a way to get to the problematic time stamp?
> 
>   1. http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-orgmode/2011-05/msg00729.html
> -- 
> Karl Voit
> 
>