range of mktime

[Fredrik Lundh]

Daniel wrote:
> : That surprises me mildly; the usual range is 1970 to 2038 (matching the
> : range of the Unix 32-bit clock).  You may want to use mxDateTime instead
> : for greater range, precision, and utility.
> 
> It's 32-bit, but signed. The 32-bit-Unix-range is then 1970+/-68 years.

note that the time.h functions use "(time_t) -1" to flag errors,
so I doubt they expected anyone to use negative values...

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