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From: Nick Dokos <nicholas.dokos@hp.com>
Subject: Re: How to debug "Specified time is not representable"
Date: Fri, 30 Sep 2011 11:31:34 -0400
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Karl Voit <devnull@Karl-Voit.at> 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