Erik Hetzner <e...@e6h.org> writes: > Hi, > > I am trying to get together a configuration for taking notes for > historical research using org mode. I think org mode could be very > useful for this, with its many ways of presenting, sorting and > searching information in orgmode files. > > One thing that has me a bit stuck, though, is timestamps that might > represent a year. For instance, it would be nice to write: > > By <1849> the California Gold Rush had ...
[...] Erik, I am not sure but I remember having a discussion about the problems with dates that precede time 0 in Unix which corresponds to 1 January 1970. See man page for ctime(3) for instance. I am currently offline (in the tunnel under the North Sea :-) so cannot find out what the conclusions of our discussion may have been. Please search the mailing list on Worg. -- : Eric S Fraga (0xFFFCF67D), Emacs 24.2.1, Org release_8.2.4-322-gece429
