Re: [O] org-contacts and dates before 1970

[Eric S Fraga]

Le Wang <address@hidden> writes:

> On Thu, May 19, 2011 at 1:46 PM, Le Wang <address@hidden> wrote:
>>>> Is it possible to specify birthdays without year?  I often want to jot
>>>> down someone's birthday so I'm not surprised next year, but don't want
>
>>>> to ask them how old they are.  :)
>>>
>>> Not really :(
>>
>> Fair enough.  I'll use 1900 as a place holder for now.
>
> I'm seeing another issue now, where if any org contact has a birthday
> pre 1970, I get the error "Bad sexp at line xxx ...".  Does this work
> for anyone else?
>
> I'm on Windows 7 runing native build of Emacs CVS and 23.2.1.  My
> org-mode is less than a week old.

This is probably related to the same problem as discussed in this
thread:

http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.orgmode/39206

on the limitations of unix time (whether on Unix or not...).
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