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From: Nicolas Goaziou <mail@nicolasgoaziou.fr>
To: Martin Kaffanke <martin@kaffanke.at>
Cc: emacs-orgmode <emacs-orgmode@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: org-read-date wrong for dates before 1970 ?
Date: Thu, 17 Sep 2015 11:28:34 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87lhc5v1h9.fsf@nicolasgoaziou.fr> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87fv2d2yl5.fsf@kaffanke.at> (Martin Kaffanke's message of "Thu, 17 Sep 2015 11:18:30 +0200")

Hello,

Martin Kaffanke <martin@kaffanke.at> writes:

> I'm doing in *scratch* the following (with C-j at the end of the line):
>
> (org-insert-time-stamp (org-read-date nil 'totime "8. März 2012"))
> <2012-10-08 Mon>"<2012-10-08 Mon>"
>
> (org-insert-time-stamp (org-read-date nil 'totime "8. März 1952"))
> <1970-10-08 Don>"<1970-10-08 Don>"
>
> (org-insert-time-stamp (org-read-date nil 'totime "1952-03-08"))
> <1970-03-08 Son>"<1970-03-08 Son>"
>
> So there a (german, and english - the last one) formated time is
> translated correct for dates after 1970, but its wrong before that.
>
> How can we fix that?

See org-read-date-force-compatible-dates.

Regards,

-- 
Nicolas Goaziou

  reply	other threads:[~2015-09-17  9:26 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2015-09-17  9:18 org-read-date wrong for dates before 1970 ? Martin Kaffanke
2015-09-17  9:28 ` Nicolas Goaziou [this message]
2015-09-17  9:46   ` Martin Kaffanke
2015-09-17  9:48 ` Eric S Fraga

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