Subject: Re: bug#18176: 24.4.50; Errors on dates far in the future in url.el

From: Glenn Morris <[email-masked]>
Date: Sat, 02 Aug 2014 22:22:09 -0400

Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen wrote:

>   date-to-time("31-Dec-9999 23:59:59.00 GMT")
[...]
> date-to-time should understand dates after 2037. 

I think it's actually 4038, due to this element of parse-time-rules:

((5) (100 4038))

Simply change that to

((5) (100 9999))

and it seems to work; but I did not check if that breaks anything else.