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From: Carsten Dominik <dominik@science.uva.nl>
Subject: Re: date stamp
Date: Thu, 22 Feb 2007 14:10:32 +0100
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To: Sean Sieger <sean.sieger@gmail.com>
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This is operating system dependent.  It depends on what kind of integer 
the OS
uses to represent time.  I believe if it is an unsigned integer, the 
minimum
date is Jan 1, 1970.  If it is a signed integer, it goes back to 1901 
or so.
Max date in both cases is somewhere 2038.  This will all go away only 
with 64 bit
systems.

Why do you need such a date?  Most likely a birthday?  You can use the 
Emacs
diary to set such birthdays - the calendar/diary can handle this.

- Carsten

On Feb 22, 2007, at 13:21, Sean Sieger wrote:

> When I do `C-c .' and then `1969-03-25' I get:
>
> Debugger entered--Lisp error: (error "Specified time is not 
> representable")
>   encode-time(0 11 7 25 3 1969)
>   org-read-date(nil totime)
>   org-time-stamp(nil)
>   call-interactively(org-time-stamp)
>
> on Ubuntu 6.10/Emacs 23.0.0.1
>
>
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