Re: Represent NTP's origin time

[Gregory Heytings]

> > NTP represents time stamps by counting seconds from January 1 1900, but 
> > my Emacs doesn't seem to be able to represent this:
> >
> >     (encode-time (parse-time-string "1902-01-01T00:00-00:00"))
> >     => (-32745 59520)
> >     (encode-time (parse-time-string "1900-01-01T00:00-00:00"))
> >     => (error "Specified time is not representable")
> >
> > Do we have some "standard" workaround?
>
> Worksforme.
>
> ELISP> (encode-time (parse-time-string "1900-01-01T00:00-00:00")) 
> (-33707 33152)

Works for me, too:

(encode-time (parse-time-string "9999-01-01T00:00-00:00"))
(3866131 3584)

(encode-time (parse-time-string "0000-01-01T00:00-00:00"))
(-948597 33792)

(encode-time (parse-time-string "-9999-01-01T00:00-00:00"))
(-5763323 19328)