On 18 January 2016 at 22:21, Chet Ramey <chet.ra...@case.edu> wrote:

> On 1/18/16 11:53 AM, Reuben Thomas wrote:
>
> > So, how about instead interpreting a missing/0 date as a NaD (Not A
> Date),
> > rather as readline does anyway with time 0, and providing a slightly more
> > meaningful message than the current "??". Then a) I would be able to
> remove
> > all my bogus "1" timestamps, and b) both "0" and missing timestamps would
> > give the user a clue that data was missing and/or zero?
>
> I think that a more meaningful error string would be useful.  We'll try
> reporting on invalid dates if the timestamp string in the history entry is
> non-empty.
>

​Sounds good, thanks.

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