Re: old dates invalid?

Wednesday, 26 May 1999


        Jan Vroonhof <vroonhof(a)math.ethz.ch&gt; writes in xemacs-beta(a)xemacs.org:

...
 Simon Josefsson <jas(a)pdc.kth.se&gt; writes:
> Hi, is this discrepency between Emacs and XEmacs date routines a
> feature?  I'm not sure what limits on the elisp time structure is so
> the result of passing year 1904 to `encode-time' is perhaps undefined. 
...
 Both Emacsen basically use the same time representation: Standard
Unix 
 seconds since 1/1/1970. FSF Emacs allows a negative number of seconds.
 XEmacs just a positive number. I am not sure whether that is
 intentional or just an oversight. 
I don't know.  The representation of times in XEmacs needs to be
revisited now that we have larger integers and the fact that we have
to deal with the y2038 problem eventually.
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