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From: Bastien <bastien.guerry@wikimedia.fr>
To: "Michael Käufl" <org-mode@lists.michael-kaeufl.de>
Cc: emacs-orgmode@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Problem with org-time-stamp & co
Date: Fri, 18 Feb 2011 10:17:51 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87fwrlg0qo.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <201102171615.43058.org-mode@lists.michael-kaeufl.de> ("Michael Käufl"'s message of "Thu, 17 Feb 2011 16:15:42 +0100")

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Hi Michael,

Michael Käufl <org-mode@lists.michael-kaeufl.de> writes:

> I tried to enter a date before 01/01/1970 using “C-c .” (org-time-stamp) and 
> org replaced the year by 2011. (The same problem occurs with org-time-stamp-
> inactive and the C-u prefixed variants.)
>
> Although I guess that this is related to the unix time, which starts on 
> 01/01/1970 00:00, my lisp skills aren't good enough to let me find the 
> responsible code line.
>
> Maybe there is someone who can fix this or tell me that it's a feature, not a 
> bug;)

The attached patch allows dates before 1970.  I tested it and I didn't
see any side-effect so far -- but there must a good reason why we have 
this limitation.

Carsten, could you tell where this limitation is necessary?

Thanks,


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diff --git a/lisp/org.el b/lisp/org.el
index 655d106..bdd808d 100644
--- a/lisp/org.el
+++ b/lisp/org.el
@@ -14667,7 +14667,6 @@ user."
 	     (nth 2 tl))
 	(setq org-time-was-given t))
     (if (< year 100) (setq year (+ 2000 year)))
-    (if (< year 1970) (setq year (nth 5 defdecode))) ; not representable
     (setq org-read-date-analyze-futurep futurep)
     (list second minute hour day month year)))

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-- 
 Bastien

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      parent reply	other threads:[~2011-02-18  9:17 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2011-02-17 15:15 Problem with org-time-stamp & co Michael Käufl
2011-02-17 20:15 ` Suvayu Ali
2011-02-18 14:42   ` Ian Barton
2011-02-18 14:50     ` Bastien
2011-02-18  9:17 ` Bastien [this message]

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