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

[Eli Zaretskii]

> From: Gabriel <beauchampgabriel@gmail.com>
> Date: Tue, 09 Dec 2014 19:41:58 -0500
> 
> Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> writes:
> 
> >> From: Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org>
> >> My solution would be to just document this ("Emacs does not support
> >> dates further into the future than 2038 on OS-es with 32-bit
> >> time_t") and move on.
> >
> > Yes.
> 
> I'd be willing to try and document that.

Thank you.

> I thought `date-to-time' would have been the right place to do that.
> (Given the backtrace I had stopped there)
> But I could write it in the Elisp manual too.

If you have time, please do both.

> And write a patch and send it to emacs-devel?

You could post it to this thread/bug report.

> (Sorry, I need pointers for my first contribution)

No need to apologize.  Thanks in advance.