Re: [O] org-read-date wrong for dates before 1970 ?

[Nicolas Goaziou]

Hello,

Martin Kaffanke <address@hidden> writes:

> I'm doing in *scratch* the following (with C-j at the end of the line):
>
> (org-insert-time-stamp (org-read-date nil 'totime "8. März 2012"))
> <2012-10-08 Mon>"<2012-10-08 Mon>"
>
> (org-insert-time-stamp (org-read-date nil 'totime "8. März 1952"))
> <1970-10-08 Don>"<1970-10-08 Don>"
>
> (org-insert-time-stamp (org-read-date nil 'totime "1952-03-08"))
> <1970-03-08 Son>"<1970-03-08 Son>"
>
> So there a (german, and english - the last one) formated time is
> translated correct for dates after 1970, but its wrong before that.
>
> How can we fix that?

See org-read-date-force-compatible-dates.

Regards,

-- 
Nicolas Goaziou