Re: Agenda Bulk Scatter bug

[Michael Brand <michael.ch.brand@gmail.com>]

Hi Carsten

On Fri, Jun 10, 2011 at 10:20, Carsten Dominik
<carsten.dominik@gmail.com> wrote:
> When I evaluate this form
> (decode-time (days-to-time (time-to-days (current-time))))
> I get a date in the year 3980.  I think this used to work.
> Is there anyone who has an idea what is going on here?

Same here (except the "I think this used to work") on GNU Emacs 23.3.1
x86_64-apple-darwin that is 64 bit and has also the famous time_t with
64 bits. The error reported by others comes from time_t with 32 bits.
decode-time checks for overflow of time_t before either passing it to
the system call localtime(const time_t *), or giving the error.

But since it's only a mismatch of current-time with base 1970 and
time-to-days with base 1bec, is
(decode-time (days-to-time (- (time-to-days (current-time))
(time-to-days '(0 0)))))
what you need? Why the *days* function, for some rounding?

Michael