bug#19302: 24.4.51; `date-to-time' fails after 2038

[Stefan Monnier]

>>>> I agree, but not by making Emacs do heroic hacks, instead we can make
>>>> the problem go away by telling the user to update his C library.
>>> What C library version fixes this?
>> I don't know.  But as long as the problem is not sufficiently important
>> to fix it in the C library, I don't see why we should fix it in Emacs.
> I agree.  Does anyone object to closing this as wontfix?

Side note: IIUC glibc now has something working and distributions like
Debian are now trying to figure out how to go about incorporating it
(since it expands time_t to 64bit on 32bit systems, forcing an
ABI-incompatible change which can create more ABI-incompatible changes
in libraries that include a time_t in their API).


        Stefan