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Re: [O] org-read-date wrong for dates before 1970 ?
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Eric S Fraga |
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Re: [O] org-read-date wrong for dates before 1970 ? |
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Thu, 17 Sep 2015 10:48:06 +0100 |
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On Thursday, 17 Sep 2015 at 11:18, Martin Kaffanke wrote:
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> So there a (german, and english - the last one) formated time is
> translated correct for dates after 1970, but its wrong before that.
This is a known issue: Unix was born in 1969 and time did not exist
before ;-) It's the equivalent of the big bang.
More seriously, the data structure used to indicate time and date in
Unix is 0 sometime in 1969 and runs out in 2037 (due to 32 bit integer
arithmetic), at least as far as org is concerned.
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: Eric S Fraga (0xFFFCF67D), Emacs 25.0.50.2, Org release_8.3.1-234-g8c85c9