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

[Eli Zaretskii]

> From: Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>
> Cc: Ihor Radchenko <yantar92@gmail.com>,  emacs-devel@gnu.org
> Date: Sun, 12 Jun 2022 10:21:39 -0400
> 
> Eli Zaretskii [2022-06-12 13:00:57] wrote:
> >> > Any 32-bit build of Emacs is potentially prone to this problem,
> >> > depending on what time-related APIs it is using.  If time_t is a
> >> > 32-bit type, this problem will still exist.
> >> 
> >> Thanks for the clarification!
> >> 
> >> I am now wondering if it is soon going to be the time to do something
> >> about it. 2037 is getting closer and the 32-bit limitation may become a
> >> real issue for the 32-bit Emacs builds.
> >
> > Yes, at some point in the not-so-distant future we will have to face
> > the issue.
> 
> I thought there was nothing to be done on our side: we only suffer from
> the limitations that are imposed by the libc (and only when the value
> needs to be passed to libc), and as soon as the underlying OS/libc is
> updated to avoid those problems, the problem also disappears in Emacs.

That's true, but we will have to at least say something about dropping
support for libc's that don't.  Or something.