Re: Timer errors in last few days (bignump change?)

[Paul Eggert]

Kaushal Modi wrote:
> In the last 2-3 days, this new error starts popping up frequently.
>
> Debugger entered--Lisp error: (wrong-type-argument number-or-marker-p nil)
>    timer-next-integral-multiple-of-time((63065 20560) 60)
>    display-time-event-handler()
>    apply(display-time-event-handler nil)
>    timer-event-handler([t 23440 6080 0 60 display-time-event-handler nil nil
> 0])
>
> timer-next-integral-multiple-of-time accepts TIME and SECS (integer) as
> arguments, and the values (63065 20560) and 60 seem fine (or not?).

I don't see how the first argument of timer-next-integral-multiple-of-time could 
be (63065 20560). display-time-event-handler passes the value returned by 
current-time, and that value is always a list of four integers. Is it possible 
that you've redefined current-time, or redefined display-time-event-handler?

(63065 20560) corresponds to 2100-12-21 05:00:00 UTC, which is pretty far in the 
future, and it seems unlikely you'd want to set alarms for that timestamp.

What platform are you running on? What is time_t on that platform, exactly? How 
did you configure Emacs? Perhaps this is related to the year-2100 problems on 
DOS and MS-Windows. I don't know much about those problems, though. See:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Time_formatting_and_storage_bugs#Year_2100