From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Nick Dokos Subject: Re: How to debug "Specified time is not representable" Date: Fri, 30 Sep 2011 11:31:34 -0400 Message-ID: <18581.1317396694@alphaville.dokosmarshall.org> References: <2011-09-30T16-30-44@devnull.Karl-Voit.at> Reply-To: nicholas.dokos@hp.com Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Return-path: Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([140.186.70.92]:59793) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1R9f3t-0005qm-Nu for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Fri, 30 Sep 2011 11:31:46 -0400 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1R9f3s-0006T9-8T for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Fri, 30 Sep 2011 11:31:41 -0400 Received: from g4t0016.houston.hp.com ([15.201.24.19]:45391) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1R9f3s-0006Rc-3b for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Fri, 30 Sep 2011 11:31:40 -0400 In-Reply-To: Message from Karl Voit of "Fri\, 30 Sep 2011 16\:32\:38 +0200." <2011-09-30T16-30-44@devnull.Karl-Voit.at> List-Id: "General discussions about Org-mode." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-orgmode-bounces+geo-emacs-orgmode=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sender: emacs-orgmode-bounces+geo-emacs-orgmode=m.gmane.org@gnu.org To: news1142@Karl-Voit.at Cc: nicholas.dokos@hp.com, emacs-orgmode@gnu.org Karl Voit wrote: > Hi! >=20 > When I get =C2=ABSpecified time is not representable=C2=BB while creating= the > Agenda view, I want to get more information *where* the problem is. >=20 > I found [1] and following and so I got it that there is no way of > managing timestamps before 1970 :-( >=20 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=20 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? >=20 > 1. http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-orgmode/2011-05/msg00729.html > --=20 > Karl Voit >=20 >=20