From: Giovanni Ridolfi <giovanni.ridolfi@yahoo.it>
To: Julian Bean <jules@jellybean.co.uk>
Cc: emacs-orgmode@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Error message could be improved - Specified time is not representable
Date: Tue, 24 May 2011 10:16:02 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <83k4dg7bul.fsf@yahoo.it> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <2D8D6FEC-69C7-43CF-B755-BB7BC49977AA@jellybean.co.uk> (Julian Bean's message of "Tue, 24 May 2011 08:06:19 +0100")
Julian Bean <jules@jellybean.co.uk> writes:
Hi Jules,
>
> On upgrading to emacs 23.3 (from emacs 23.1) my daily/weekly agenda
> became unusable, giving the error message "Specified time is not
> representable".
>
> [...] I tracked this down to an erroneous SCHEDULED date of 1st
> January 1904 buried inside a task. [...]
>
> Evidently, for some reason, calling (encode-time 0 0 0 1 1 1904) on
> 23.3 causes the error above,
" This is probably related to the same problem as discussed in this
thread:
http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.orgmode/39206
on the limitations of unix time (whether on Unix or not...)."
> whereas on 23.1 it's silently ignored?
Since it is an Emacs problem I think you should ask Emacs's
developers:
emacs-devel@gnu.org
or file a bug report:
M-x report-emacs-bug or write to
bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
cheers,
Giovanni
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2011-05-24 7:06 Error message could be improved - Specified time is not representable Julian Bean
2011-05-24 8:16 ` Giovanni Ridolfi [this message]
2011-05-24 8:31 ` Julian Bean
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