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It would be overkill to move from 32 bits of Unix timestamps to 64 bit signed ints just for this application.

But it might be a good idea in general, and then it would solve this issue as a side effect.



Sure, but that’s a problem way down the stack, a problem for language designers, not application developers.


Well, they are also getting six figure salaries.

But in any case, eg Python supports dates before 1970 just fine. It was a conscious decision by the application developers of git to restrict themselves to whatever C has to offer.




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