Hi Michael,
Michael Käufl <org-m...@lists.michael-kaeufl.de> writes:
> I tried to enter a date before 01/01/1970 using “C-c .” (org-time-stamp) and
> org replaced the year by 2011. (The same problem occurs with org-time-stamp-
> inactive and the C-u prefixed variants.)
>
> Although I guess that this is related to the unix time, which starts on
> 01/01/1970 00:00, my lisp skills aren't good enough to let me find the
> responsible code line.
>
> Maybe there is someone who can fix this or tell me that it's a feature, not a
> bug;)
The attached patch allows dates before 1970. I tested it and I didn't
see any side-effect so far -- but there must a good reason why we have
this limitation.
Carsten, could you tell where this limitation is necessary?
Thanks,
diff --git a/lisp/org.el b/lisp/org.el
index 655d106..bdd808d 100644
--- a/lisp/org.el
+++ b/lisp/org.el
@@ -14667,7 +14667,6 @@ user."
(nth 2 tl))
(setq org-time-was-given t))
(if (< year 100) (setq year (+ 2000 year)))
- (if (< year 1970) (setq year (nth 5 defdecode))) ; not representable
(setq org-read-date-analyze-futurep futurep)
(list second minute hour day month year)))
--
Bastien
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