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

[Stefan Kangas]

Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca> writes:

>>> 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.

It seems like the glibc maintainers are still working on a fix.  Here
are two relevant links for reference:

https://sourceware.org/glibc/wiki/Y2038ProofnessDesign
https://sourceware.org/ml/libc-alpha/2019-07/msg00256.html

Best regards,
Stefan Kangas