bug#48298: Invalid time specification: encode-time((0 30 11 1 1 0 nil -1 nil))

[Lars Ingebrigtsen]

"Basil L. Contovounesios" <contovob@tcd.ie> writes:

> It already does:
>
>   The default value is based on January 1st, 1970 at midnight.
>
> Can it be clarified further?

Oh, so it was just a bug...

>> (All the other defaults are as zero-ish as possible, and 1970 is used
>> here only because of technical limitations.)
>
> Is it worth mentioning in the docstring that 1970 is chosen to guarantee
> portability, similar to the note in encode-time's docstring?

Sure; makes sense.

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