Crash on windows at 2043 AD

Today I have experienced a number of crashes in icq2000beta and Xemacs-21.2.45 on windows. Finally, I found the cause -- my Win2000 (with SP1) has set the date to 3 Apr 2043 (first of April joke?). The test case is (current-time-string '(35273 29735 377000)) According to debugger in Visual Studio, the error "Access Violation" occured in the body of `current-time-string' (editfns.c, 1254) when it tries to determine the length of the string that was returned by `ctime': ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- /* ctime is documented as always returning a "\n\0"-terminated 26-byte American time string, but let's be careful anyways. */ for (len = 0; the_ctime[len] != '\n' && the_ctime[len] != '\0'; len++) ; ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- The problem is that in this case `lisp_to_time' fails to convert lisp representation of time to a value of time_t type. `ctime' is called with pointer to -1 and returns an empty string "". Thus the supposition in comment does not hold. I'm not shure how to handle this exceptional situation and it seems a long way till it really hurts. Nick.