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Re: encode-time doesn't work on epoch + TZ


From: Richard Stallman
Subject: Re: encode-time doesn't work on epoch + TZ
Date: Thu, 07 Aug 2003 02:05:14 -0400

    (encode-time 0 0 18 31 12 1969 0) gives the following:

    Debugger entered--Lisp error: (error "Specified time is not representable")
      encode-time(0 0 18 31 12 1969 0)
      eval((encode-time 0 0 18 31 12 1969 0))
      eval-expression((encode-time 0 0 18 31 12 1969 0) nil)
      call-interactively(eval-expression)

That one works ok for me.

However, dates considerably earlier do fail.
It looks like they fail because mktime cannot handle them.

I don't think there's any way to fix this except to rewrite it
completely, and that doesn't seem worth while.  So I will
document it.  Thanks.




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