Re: What were the Emacs versions with dates limited to 1970 .. 2037 year range?

[Stefan Monnier]

Eli Zaretskii [2022-06-12 13:00:57] wrote:
>> > Any 32-bit build of Emacs is potentially prone to this problem,
>> > depending on what time-related APIs it is using.  If time_t is a
>> > 32-bit type, this problem will still exist.
>> 
>> Thanks for the clarification!
>> 
>> I am now wondering if it is soon going to be the time to do something
>> about it. 2037 is getting closer and the 32-bit limitation may become a
>> real issue for the 32-bit Emacs builds.
>
> Yes, at some point in the not-so-distant future we will have to face
> the issue.

I thought there was nothing to be done on our side: we only suffer from
the limitations that are imposed by the libc (and only when the value
needs to be passed to libc), and as soon as the underlying OS/libc is
updated to avoid those problems, the problem also disappears in Emacs.


        Stefan