[issue31212] datetime: min date (0001-01-01 00:00:00) can't be converted to local timestamp

[Alexander Belopolsky]

Alexander Belopolsky added the comment:

On the second thought, a reasonable design can use datetime.min/max as placeholders for unknown times far in the past/future compensating for the lack datetime ±inf.  In this use case, it may be annoying to see errors from timestamp() instead of some ridiculously large values.

I am -0 on making this change.  If anyone is motivated to produce a patch - I'll review it, but I am not going to write it myself.

I am marking this "tests needed" because we need a test complete with setting an appropriate timezone that demonstrates this issue.

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components: +Extension Modules
stage:  -> test needed

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