Re: Date and time processing issue

> On 2. Aug 2024, at 18:19, Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> wrote:
> 
> the.tester@mac.com writes:
> 
>> To me, the error message is at least misleading.
> 
> Correct.  The error message is prepared for the most common case
> where people ask for an invalid format, but does not pay attention
> to the fact that some timestamps are not out of range in the Git
> timescale and such an out of range timestamp can be fed to the
> program.
> 
> Something along the following line may be a good first step to fix
> it.
> 
> builtin/commit.c | 2 +-
> ident.c          | 3 ++-
> 2 files changed, 3 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git c/builtin/commit.c w/builtin/commit.c
> index 66427ba82d..24de55ae86 100644
> --- c/builtin/commit.c
> +++ w/builtin/commit.c
> ………
> or date out of range: %s"),
> +    date_str);
> }
> else
> strbuf_addstr(ident, ident_default_date());
>