Hi Carsten, orgers, * Carsten Dominik <carsten.domi...@gmail.com> [11. Mar. 2011]: > 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.
Therefore it should be possible to either use a pre 1970 date or a post 2038 date, but: If I type (as Eric suggested in the starting message of this thread) C-c ! 1968-12-10 RET I get [2011-12-10 Sa] (same as Eric). But if I type C-c ! 2040 I get an error message "specified time not representable". So for me it's neither--nor but in different ways. The second way of failing is much better because I get feedback. Ciao, Gregor -- -... --- .-. . -.. ..--.. ...-.-