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

[Eli Zaretskii]

> From: Po Lu <luangruo@yahoo.com>
> Cc: Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>,  yantar92@gmail.com,
>   emacs-devel@gnu.org
> Date: Mon, 13 Jun 2022 08:30:15 +0800
> 
> Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> writes:
> 
> > That's true, but we will have to at least say something about dropping
> > support for libc's that don't.  Or something.
> 
> Come 2037, the systems with unfixed libc's will automatically become
> obsolete.  We won't have to do anything.

Emacs compiled with those obsolete libc versions can be moved to a
newer system, and will generally still continue working.  So the
system can still be alive, but such an old-compiled Emacs on that
system will die.  We will need at least to mention that somewhere.