Hi, I asked in emacs-develop and got:
> by Andreas Schwabon 2011-03-11T13:19:43+00:00. > > If your system's time-t is a signed 32-bit integer then your system is > able to represent times between 1901-12-13 20:45:53 UTC and 2038-01-19 > 03:14:07 UTC. If your system's time-t is an unsigned 32-bit integer > your system can represent times between 1970-01-01 00:00:00 UTC and > 2106-02-07 06:28:15 UTC. > Andreas. So I am not sure what 64 bit systems do now or in the future, but it seems that we need to live with a restriction for now. Maybe this should be documented somewhere. - Carsten On Mar 11, 2011, at 1:00 PM, Eric S Fraga wrote: > Carsten Dominik <carsten.domi...@gmail.com> writes: > > [...] > >> THis is exactly the point, that it depends on how Emacs was compiled, >> and what kind of integer is used in the date representation. Signed >> or unsigend, 32 or 64 bits (I think). > > Yes, that makes sense. > >> For example, Bastien can represent dates before 1970. I cannot. >> I can represent dates after 2038, Bastien cannot. > > I can do before 1970 but not after 2038. Interesting. > -- > : Eric S Fraga (GnuPG: 0xC89193D8FFFCF67D) in Emacs 24.0.50.1 > : using Org-mode version 7.5 (release_7.5.27.gefa56) - Carsten
