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Re:US Constitution – A Git repo with history of edits by eru on Thursday October 24, 2019 @02:41AM (#21342233)
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.

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Re:US Constitution – A Git repo with history of edits by jeromebaek on Thursday October 24, 2019 @02:45AM (#21342259)
Sure, but that’s a problem way down the stack, a problem for language designers, not application developers.
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Re:US Constitution – A Git repo with history of edits by eru on Thursday October 24, 2019 @04:13AM (#21342620)
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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