GNU bug report logs - #18176
24.4.50; Errors on dates far in the future in url.el

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Reported by: Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen <larsi <at> gnus.org>

Date: Sat, 2 Aug 2014 23:20:02 UTC

Severity: normal

Found in version 24.4.50

Done: Paul Eggert <eggert <at> cs.ucla.edu>

Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.

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Message #8 received at 18176 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Glenn Morris <rgm <at> gnu.org>
To: Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen <larsi <at> gnus.org>
Cc: 18176 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#18176: 24.4.50; Errors on dates far in the future in url.el
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.
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