Re: Arithmetic range error

[Robert Pluim]

Eli Zaretskii <address@hidden> writes:

>> From: Robert Pluim <address@hidden>
>> Date: Fri, 08 Feb 2019 14:34:29 +0100
>> Cc: address@hidden
>> 
>> The problem comes from org's desire to have the ctime as a single
>> integer. Reverting the commit that changed org to use 'floor' will
>> just result in truncation (but people might not care about that, since
>> weʼd be dropping the high bits of the timestamp). Ideally org would
>> handle the list form of timestamps, but thatʼs something for org
>> developers to decide.
>
> Indeed, this is a matter for Org developers to handle.  CC'ing Bastien
> for that reason.

Nicolas does a lot of org work as well, CC'd.

Thinking about it some more, the old method already truncated the
ctime anyway, and has done for a long time, so perhaps restoring it is
not unwarranted.

Robert